Scoreable.java

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/*
 * Scoreable.java
 * Copyright (C) 2001-2012 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 * 
 */
package weka.classifiers.bayes.net.search.local;

/**
 * Interface for allowing to score a classifier
 * 
 * @author Remco Bouckaert (rrb@xm.co.nz)
 * @version $Revision: 8034 $
 */
public interface Scoreable {

  /**
   * score types
   */
  int BAYES = 0;
  int BDeu = 1;
  int MDL = 2;
  int ENTROPY = 3;
  int AIC = 4;

  /**
   * Returns log-score
   * 
   * @param nType the score type
   * @return the log-score
   */
  double logScore(int nType, int nCardinality);
}    // interface Scoreable