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/*
* EntropyBasedSplitCrit.java
* Copyright (C) 1999 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
*
*/
package weka.classifiers.trees.j48;
/**
* "Abstract" class for computing splitting criteria
* based on the entropy of a class distribution.
*
* @author Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
* @version $Revision: 1.8 $
*/
public abstract class EntropyBasedSplitCrit
extends SplitCriterion {
/** for serialization */
private static final long serialVersionUID = -2618691439791653056L;
/** The log of 2. */
protected static double log2 = Math.log(2);
/**
* Help method for computing entropy.
*/
public final double logFunc(double num) {
// Constant hard coded for efficiency reasons
if (num < 1e-6)
return 0;
else
return num*Math.log(num)/log2;
}
/**
* Computes entropy of distribution before splitting.
*/
public final double oldEnt(Distribution bags) {
double returnValue = 0;
int j;
for (j=0;j<bags.numClasses();j++)
returnValue = returnValue+logFunc(bags.perClass(j));
return logFunc(bags.total())-returnValue;
}
/**
* Computes entropy of distribution after splitting.
*/
public final double newEnt(Distribution bags) {
double returnValue = 0;
int i,j;
for (i=0;i<bags.numBags();i++){
for (j=0;j<bags.numClasses();j++)
returnValue = returnValue+logFunc(bags.perClassPerBag(i,j));
returnValue = returnValue-logFunc(bags.perBag(i));
}
return -returnValue;
}
/**
* Computes entropy after splitting without considering the
* class values.
*/
public final double splitEnt(Distribution bags) {
double returnValue = 0;
int i;
for (i=0;i<bags.numBags();i++)
returnValue = returnValue+logFunc(bags.perBag(i));
return logFunc(bags.total())-returnValue;
}
}