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If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ package com.rapidminer.operator.preprocessing.discretization; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.List; import com.rapidminer.example.Attribute; import com.rapidminer.example.Example; import com.rapidminer.example.ExampleSet; import com.rapidminer.example.Statistics; import com.rapidminer.example.set.SortedExampleSet; import com.rapidminer.operator.Model; import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorDescription; import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorException; import com.rapidminer.operator.UserError; import com.rapidminer.operator.preprocessing.PreprocessingOperator; import com.rapidminer.parameter.ParameterType; import com.rapidminer.parameter.ParameterTypeBoolean; import com.rapidminer.parameter.ParameterTypeInt; /** * This operator discretizes all numeric attributes in the dataset into nominal attributes. This discretization is performed by equal frequency binning, i.e. the thresholds of all bins is selected in a way that all bins contain the same number of * numerical values. The number of bins is specified by a parameter, or, alternatively, is calculated as the square root of the number of examples with non-missing values (calculated for every single attribute). Skips all special attributes including * the label. * * @author Sebastian Land, Ingo Mierswa * @version $Id: FrequencyDiscretization.java,v 1.6 2008/07/07 11:18:55 ingomierswa Exp $ */ public class FrequencyDiscretization extends PreprocessingOperator { /** The parameter name for "If true, the number of bins is instead determined by the square root of the number of non-missing values." */ public static final String PARAMETER_USE_SQRT_OF_EXAMPLES = "use_sqrt_of_examples"; /** The parameter for the number of bins. */ public static final String PARAMETER_NUMBER_OF_BINS = "number_of_bins"; /** Indicates if long range names should be used. */ public static final String PARAMETER_USE_LONG_RANGE_NAMES = "use_long_range_names"; public FrequencyDiscretization(OperatorDescription description) { super(description); } public Model createPreprocessingModel(ExampleSet exampleSet) throws OperatorException { HashMap<Attribute, double[]> ranges = new HashMap<Attribute, double[]>(); // Get and check parametervalues boolean useSqrt = getParameterAsBoolean(PARAMETER_USE_SQRT_OF_EXAMPLES); int numberOfBins = 0; if (!useSqrt) { // if not automatic sizing of bins, use parametervalue numberOfBins = getParameterAsInt(PARAMETER_NUMBER_OF_BINS); if (numberOfBins >= (exampleSet.size() - 1)) { throw new UserError(this, 116, PARAMETER_NUMBER_OF_BINS, "number of bins must be smaller than number of examples (here: " + exampleSet.size() + ")"); } } else { exampleSet.recalculateAllAttributeStatistics(); } for (Attribute currentAttribute : exampleSet.getAttributes()) { if (useSqrt) { numberOfBins = (int)Math.round(Math.sqrt(exampleSet.size() - (int) exampleSet.getStatistics(currentAttribute, Statistics.UNKNOWN))); } double[] attributeRanges = new double[numberOfBins]; ExampleSet sortedSet = new SortedExampleSet(exampleSet, currentAttribute, SortedExampleSet.INCREASING); // finding ranges double examplesPerBin = exampleSet.size() / (double) numberOfBins; double currentBinSpace = examplesPerBin; double lastValue = Double.NaN; int currentBin = 0; for (Example example : sortedSet) { double value = example.getValue(currentAttribute); if (!Double.isNaN(value)) { // change bin if full and not last if (currentBinSpace < 1 && currentBin < numberOfBins && value != lastValue) { if (!Double.isNaN(lastValue)) { attributeRanges[currentBin] = (lastValue + value) / 2; currentBin++; currentBinSpace += examplesPerBin; } } currentBinSpace--; lastValue = value; } } attributeRanges[numberOfBins - 1] = Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY; ranges.put(currentAttribute, attributeRanges); } DiscretizationModel model = new DiscretizationModel(exampleSet); model.setRanges(ranges, "range", getParameterAsBoolean(PARAMETER_USE_LONG_RANGE_NAMES)); return model; } public List<ParameterType> getParameterTypes() { List<ParameterType> types = super.getParameterTypes(); ParameterType type = new ParameterTypeInt(PARAMETER_NUMBER_OF_BINS, "Defines the number of bins which should be used for each attribute.", 2, Integer.MAX_VALUE, 2); type.setExpert(false); types.add(type); types.add(new ParameterTypeBoolean(PARAMETER_USE_SQRT_OF_EXAMPLES, "If true, the number of bins is instead determined by the square root of the number of non-missing values.", false)); types.add(new ParameterTypeBoolean(PARAMETER_USE_LONG_RANGE_NAMES, "Indicates if long range names including the limits should be used.", true)); return types; } }