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See the GNU * Affero General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. * If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ package com.rapidminer.operator.validation.significance; import org.apache.commons.math3.distribution.FDistribution; import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorDescription; import com.rapidminer.operator.performance.PerformanceCriterion; import com.rapidminer.operator.performance.PerformanceVector; import com.rapidminer.report.Readable; import com.rapidminer.tools.Tools; import com.rapidminer.tools.math.SignificanceTestResult; /** * Determines if the null hypothesis (all actual mean values are the same) holds for the input * performance vectors. This operator uses a simple (pairwise) t-test to determine the probability * that the null hypothesis is wrong. Since a t-test can only be applied on two performance vectors * this test will be applied to all possible pairs. The result is a significance matrix. However, * pairwise t-test may introduce a larger type I error. It is recommended to apply an additional * ANOVA test to determine if the null hypothesis is wrong at all. * * @author Ingo Mierswa */ public class TTestSignificanceTestOperator extends SignificanceTestOperator { /** The result for a paired t-test. */ public static class TTestSignificanceTestResult extends SignificanceTestResult implements Readable { private static final long serialVersionUID = -5412090499056975997L; private final PerformanceVector[] allVectors; private final double[][] probMatrix; private double alpha = 0.05d; public TTestSignificanceTestResult(PerformanceVector[] allVectors, double[][] probMatrix, double alpha) { this.allVectors = allVectors; this.probMatrix = probMatrix; this.alpha = alpha; } @Override public String getName() { return "Pairwise t-Test"; } /** Returns NaN since no single probability will be delivered. */ @Override public double getProbability() { return Double.NaN; } @Override public String toString() { StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(); result.append("Probabilities for random values with the same result:" + Tools.getLineSeparator()); for (int i = 0; i < allVectors.length; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < allVectors.length; j++) { if (!Double.isNaN(probMatrix[i][j])) { result.append(Tools.formatNumber(probMatrix[i][j]) + "\t"); } else { result.append("-----\t"); } } result.append(Tools.getLineSeparator()); } result.append("Values smaller than alpha=" + Tools.formatNumber(alpha) + " indicate a probably significant difference between the mean values!" + Tools.getLineSeparator()); result.append("List of performance values:" + Tools.getLineSeparator()); for (int i = 0; i < allVectors.length; i++) { result.append(i + ": " + Tools.formatNumber(allVectors[i].getMainCriterion().getAverage()) + " +/- " + Tools.formatNumber(Math.sqrt(allVectors[i].getMainCriterion().getVariance())) + Tools.getLineSeparator()); } return result.toString(); } @Override public boolean isInTargetEncoding() { return false; } public PerformanceVector[] getAllVectors() { return allVectors; } public double[][] getProbMatrix() { return this.probMatrix; } public double getAlpha() { return this.alpha; } } public TTestSignificanceTestOperator(OperatorDescription description) { super(description); } @Override public SignificanceTestResult performSignificanceTest(PerformanceVector[] allVectors, double alpha) { double[][] resultMatrix = new double[allVectors.length][allVectors.length]; for (int i = 0; i < allVectors.length; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < i + 1; j++) { resultMatrix[i][j] = Double.NaN; // fill lower triangle with } // NaN --> empty in result // string for (int j = i + 1; j < allVectors.length; j++) { resultMatrix[i][j] = getProbability(allVectors[i].getMainCriterion(), allVectors[j].getMainCriterion()); } } return new TTestSignificanceTestResult(allVectors, resultMatrix, alpha); } private double getProbability(PerformanceCriterion pc1, PerformanceCriterion pc2) { double totalDeviation = ((pc1.getAverageCount() - 1) * pc1.getVariance() + (pc2.getAverageCount() - 1) * pc2.getVariance()) / (pc1.getAverageCount() + pc2.getAverageCount() - 2); double factor = 1.0d / (1.0d / pc1.getAverageCount() + 1.0d / pc2.getAverageCount()); double diff = pc1.getAverage() - pc2.getAverage(); double t = factor * diff * diff / totalDeviation; int secondDegreeOfFreedom = pc1.getAverageCount() + pc2.getAverageCount() - 2; double prob; // make sure the F-distribution is well defined if (secondDegreeOfFreedom > 0) { FDistribution fDist = new FDistribution(1, secondDegreeOfFreedom); prob = 1 - fDist.cumulativeProbability(t); } else { // in this case the probability cannot calculated correctly and a 1 is returned, as // this result is not significant prob = 1; } return prob; } @Override public int getMinSize() { return 2; } @Override public int getMaxSize() { return Integer.MAX_VALUE; } }