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package com.rapidminer.operator.performance;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import com.rapidminer.example.Attribute;
import com.rapidminer.example.ExampleSet;
import com.rapidminer.example.Tools;
import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorDescription;
import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorException;
import com.rapidminer.operator.UserError;
import com.rapidminer.tools.LogService;
/**
* <p>This performance evaluator operator should be used for regression tasks,
* i.e. in cases where the label attribute has a numerical value type.
* The operator expects a test {@link ExampleSet}
* as input, whose elements have both true and predicted labels, and delivers as
* output a list of performance values according to a list of performance
* criteria that it calculates. If an input performance vector was already
* given, this is used for keeping the performance values.</p>
*
* <p>All of the performance criteria can be switched on using boolean parameters.
* Their values can be queried by a ProcessLogOperator using the same names.
* The main criterion is used for comparisons and need to be specified only for
* processes where performance vectors are compared, e.g. feature selection
* or other meta optimization process setups.
* If no other main criterion was selected, the first criterion in the
* resulting performance vector will be assumed to be the main criterion.</p>
*
* <p>The resulting performance vectors are usually compared with a standard
* performance comparator which only compares the fitness values of the main
* criterion. Other implementations than this simple comparator can be
* specified using the parameter <var>comparator_class</var>. This may for
* instance be useful if you want to compare performance vectors according to
* the weighted sum of the individual criteria. In order to implement your own
* comparator, simply subclass {@link PerformanceComparator}. Please note that
* for true multi-objective optimization usually another selection scheme is
* used instead of simply replacing the performance comparator.</p>
*
* @author Ingo Mierswa
* @version $Id: RegressionPerformanceEvaluator.java,v 1.8 2008/09/10 15:18:57 ingomierswa Exp $
*/
public class RegressionPerformanceEvaluator extends AbstractPerformanceEvaluator {
/** The proper criteria to the names. */
private static final Class[] SIMPLE_CRITERIA_CLASSES = {
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.RootMeanSquaredError.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.AbsoluteError.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.RelativeError.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.NormalizedAbsoluteError.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.RootRelativeSquaredError.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.SquaredError.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.CorrelationCriterion.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.SquaredCorrelationCriterion.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.PredictionAverage.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.AbsMaxError.class,
com.rapidminer.operator.performance.AbsMinError.class
};
public RegressionPerformanceEvaluator(OperatorDescription description) {
super(description);
}
protected void checkCompatibility(ExampleSet exampleSet) throws OperatorException {
Tools.isLabelled(exampleSet);
Tools.isNonEmpty(exampleSet);
Attribute label = exampleSet.getAttributes().getLabel();
if (!label.isNumerical()) {
throw new UserError(this, 102, "the calculation of performance criteria for regression tasks", label.getName());
}
}
protected double[] getClassWeights(Attribute label) {
return null;
}
public List<PerformanceCriterion> getCriteria() {
List<PerformanceCriterion> allCriteria = new LinkedList<PerformanceCriterion>();
for (int i = 0; i < SIMPLE_CRITERIA_CLASSES.length; i++) {
try {
allCriteria.add((PerformanceCriterion)SIMPLE_CRITERIA_CLASSES[i].newInstance());
} catch (InstantiationException e) {
LogService.getGlobal().logError("Cannot instantiate " + SIMPLE_CRITERIA_CLASSES[i] + ". Skipping...");
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
LogService.getGlobal().logError("Cannot instantiate " + SIMPLE_CRITERIA_CLASSES[i] + ". Skipping...");
}
}
// rank correlation criteria
for (int i = 0; i < RankCorrelation.NAMES.length; i++) {
allCriteria.add(new RankCorrelation(i));
}
return allCriteria;
}
}