weka.filters.unsupervised.instance

Class RemovePercentage

java.lang.Object

weka.filters.Filter

weka.filters.unsupervised.instance.RemovePercentage

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, CapabilitiesHandler, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler, UnsupervisedFilter

public class RemovePercentage
extends Filter
implements UnsupervisedFilter, OptionHandler

A filter that removes a given percentage of a dataset.

Valid options are:

 -P <percentage>
  Specifies percentage of instances to select. (default 50)
 

 -V
  Specifies if inverse of selection is to be output.
 

Version:

$Revision: 8034 $

Author:

Richard Kirkby (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz), Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RemovePercentage()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	batchFinished() Signify that this batch of input to the filter is finished.
Capabilities	getCapabilities() Returns the Capabilities of this filter.
boolean	getInvertSelection() Gets if selection is to be inverted.
String[]	getOptions() Gets the current settings of the filter.
double	getPercentage() Gets the percentage of instances to select.
String	getRevision() Returns the revision string.
String	globalInfo() Returns a string describing this filter
boolean	input(Instance instance) Input an instance for filtering.
String	invertSelectionTipText() Returns the tip text for this property
Enumeration	listOptions() Gets an enumeration describing the available options..
static void	main(String[] argv) Main method for testing this class.
String	percentageTipText() Returns the tip text for this property
boolean	setInputFormat(Instances instanceInfo) Sets the format of the input instances.
void	setInvertSelection(boolean inverse) Sets if selection is to be inverted.
void	setOptions(String[] options) Parses a given list of options.
void	setPercentage(double percent) Sets the percentage of intances to select.

Methods inherited from class weka.filters.Filter

batchFilterFile, filterFile, getCapabilities, getOutputFormat, isFirstBatchDone, isNewBatch, isOutputFormatDefined, makeCopies, makeCopy, mayRemoveInstanceAfterFirstBatchDone, numPendingOutput, output, outputPeek, runFilter, toString, useFilter, wekaStaticWrapper

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RemovePercentage

public RemovePercentage()

Method Detail

listOptions

public Enumeration listOptions()

Gets an enumeration describing the available options..

Specified by:

listOptions in interface OptionHandler

Returns:

an enumeration of all the available options.

setOptions

public void setOptions(String[] options)
                throws Exception

Parses a given list of options.

Valid options are:

 -P <percentage>
  Specifies percentage of instances to select. (default 50)
 

 -V
  Specifies if inverse of selection is to be output.
 

Specified by:

setOptions in interface OptionHandler

Parameters:

options - the list of options as an array of strings

Throws:

Exception - if an option is not supported

getOptions

public String[] getOptions()

Gets the current settings of the filter.

Specified by:

getOptions in interface OptionHandler

Returns:

an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions

globalInfo

public String globalInfo()

Returns a string describing this filter

Returns:

a description of the filter suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

percentageTipText

public String percentageTipText()

Returns the tip text for this property

Returns:

tip text for this property suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

getPercentage

public double getPercentage()

Gets the percentage of instances to select.

Returns:

the percentage.

setPercentage

public void setPercentage(double percent)

Sets the percentage of intances to select.

Parameters:

percent - the percentage

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if percentage out of range

invertSelectionTipText

public String invertSelectionTipText()

Returns the tip text for this property

Returns:

tip text for this property suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

getInvertSelection

public boolean getInvertSelection()

Gets if selection is to be inverted.

Returns:

true if the selection is to be inverted

setInvertSelection

public void setInvertSelection(boolean inverse)

Sets if selection is to be inverted.

Parameters:

inverse - true if inversion is to be performed

getCapabilities

public Capabilities getCapabilities()

Returns the Capabilities of this filter.

Specified by:

getCapabilities in interface CapabilitiesHandler

Overrides:

getCapabilities in class Filter

Returns:

the capabilities of this object

See Also:

Capabilities

setInputFormat

public boolean setInputFormat(Instances instanceInfo)
                       throws Exception

Sets the format of the input instances.

Overrides:

setInputFormat in class Filter

Parameters:

instanceInfo - an Instances object containing the input instance structure (any instances contained in the object are ignored - only the structure is required).

Returns:

true because outputFormat can be collected immediately

Throws:

Exception - if the input format can't be set successfully

input

public boolean input(Instance instance)

Input an instance for filtering. Ordinarily the instance is processed and made available for output immediately. Some filters require all instances be read before producing output.

Overrides:

input in class Filter

Parameters:

instance - the input instance

Returns:

true if the filtered instance may now be collected with output().

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if no input format has been set.

batchFinished

public boolean batchFinished()

Signify that this batch of input to the filter is finished. Output() may now be called to retrieve the filtered instances.

Overrides:

batchFinished in class Filter

Returns:

true if there are instances pending output

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if no input structure has been defined

getRevision

public String getRevision()

Returns the revision string.

Specified by:

getRevision in interface RevisionHandler

Overrides:

getRevision in class Filter

Returns:

the revision

main

public static void main(String[] argv)

Main method for testing this class.

Parameters:

argv - should contain arguments to the filter: use -h for help