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package com.rapidminer.operator.preprocessing.filter;

import com.rapidminer.example.ExampleSet;
import com.rapidminer.example.set.ReplaceMissingExampleSet;
import com.rapidminer.operator.IOObject;
import com.rapidminer.operator.Operator;
import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorDescription;
import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorException;

/**
 * This operator simply creates a new view on the input data without
 * changing the actual data or creating a new data table. The new view 
 * will not contain any missing values for regular attributes but 
 * the mean value (or mode) of the non-missing values instead.
 *
 * @author Ingo Mierswa
 * @version $Id: MissingValueReplenishmentView.java,v 1.7 2008/07/07 07:06:39 ingomierswa Exp $
 */
public class MissingValueReplenishmentView extends Operator {

	public MissingValueReplenishmentView(OperatorDescription description) {
		super(description);
	}

	public IOObject[] apply() throws OperatorException {
		ExampleSet exampleSet = getInput(ExampleSet.class);
		ExampleSet result = new ReplaceMissingExampleSet(exampleSet);
		return new IOObject[] { result };
	}

	public Class<?>[] getInputClasses() {
		return new Class[] { ExampleSet.class };
	}

	public Class<?>[] getOutputClasses() {
		return new Class[] { ExampleSet.class };
	}
}