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package com.rapidminer.operator.preprocessing.sampling.sequences;
import com.rapidminer.tools.RandomGenerator;
/**
* This is an abstract super class of all sampling sequence generators. Subclasses of this class
* will return a sequence of true/false values to indicate that the next example to come should be
* part of the sample or not.
*
* @author Sebastian Land
*/
public abstract class SamplingSequenceGenerator {
protected RandomGenerator random;
protected SamplingSequenceGenerator(RandomGenerator random) {
this.random = random;
}
/**
* This method has to be overridden. Subclasses must implement this method, so that it returns
* true if the next example should be part of the sample or no otherwise.
*/
public abstract boolean useNext();
}