weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute

Class ClusterMembership

java.lang.Object

weka.filters.Filter

weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.ClusterMembership

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, CapabilitiesHandler, CapabilitiesIgnorer, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler, UnsupervisedFilter

public class ClusterMembership
extends Filter
implements UnsupervisedFilter, OptionHandler

A filter that uses a density-based clusterer to generate cluster membership values; filtered instances are composed of these values plus the class attribute (if set in the input data). If a (nominal) class attribute is set, the clusterer is run separately for each class. The class attribute (if set) and any user-specified attributes are ignored during the clustering operation

Valid options are:

 -W <clusterer name>
  Full name of clusterer to use. eg:
   weka.clusterers.EM
  Additional options after the '--'.
  (default: weka.clusterers.EM)
 

 -I <att1,att2-att4,...>
  The range of attributes the clusterer should ignore.
  (the class attribute is automatically ignored)
 

Options after the -- are passed on to the clusterer.

Version:

$Revision: 10215 $

Author:

Mark Hall (mhall@cs.waikato.ac.nz), Eibe Frank

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ClusterMembership()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	batchFinished() Signify that this batch of input to the filter is finished.
String	densityBasedClustererTipText() Returns a description of this option suitable for display as a tip text in the gui.
Capabilities	getCapabilities() Returns the Capabilities of this filter.
Capabilities	getCapabilities(Instances data) Returns the Capabilities of this filter, makes sure that the class is never set (for the clusterer).
DensityBasedClusterer	getDensityBasedClusterer() Get the clusterer used by this filter
String	getIgnoredAttributeIndices() Gets ranges of attributes to be ignored.
String[]	getOptions() Gets the current settings of the filter.
String	getRevision() Returns the revision string.
String	globalInfo() Returns a string describing this filter
String	ignoredAttributeIndicesTipText() Returns the tip text for this property
boolean	input(Instance instance) Input an instance for filtering.
Enumeration<Option>	listOptions() Returns an enumeration describing the available options.
static void	main(String[] argv) Main method for testing this class.
void	setDensityBasedClusterer(DensityBasedClusterer newClusterer) Set the clusterer for use in filtering
void	setIgnoredAttributeIndices(String rangeList) Sets the ranges of attributes to be ignored.
boolean	setInputFormat(Instances instanceInfo) Sets the format of the input instances.
void	setOptions(String[] options) Parses a given list of options.

Methods inherited from class weka.filters.Filter

batchFilterFile, debugTipText, doNotCheckCapabilitiesTipText, filterFile, getDebug, getDoNotCheckCapabilities, getOutputFormat, isFirstBatchDone, isNewBatch, isOutputFormatDefined, makeCopies, makeCopy, mayRemoveInstanceAfterFirstBatchDone, numPendingOutput, output, outputPeek, runFilter, setDebug, setDoNotCheckCapabilities, toString, useFilter, wekaStaticWrapper

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ClusterMembership

public ClusterMembership()

Method Detail

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

getCapabilities

public Capabilities getCapabilities(Instances data)

Returns the Capabilities of this filter, makes sure that the class is never set (for the clusterer).

Overrides:

getCapabilities in class Filter

Parameters:

data - the data to use for customization

Returns:

the capabilities of this object, based on the data

See Also:

getCapabilities()

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 if the outputFormat may be collected immediately

Throws:

Exception - if the inputFormat can't be set successfully

batchFinished

public boolean batchFinished()
                      throws Exception

Signify that this batch of input to the filter is finished.

Overrides:

batchFinished in class Filter

Returns:

true if there are instances pending output

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if no input structure has been defined

NullPointerException - if no input structure has been defined,

Exception - if there was a problem finishing the batch.

input

public boolean input(Instance instance)
              throws Exception

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 defined.

NullPointerException - if the input format has not been defined.

Exception - if the input instance was not of the correct format or if there was a problem with the filtering.

listOptions

public Enumeration<Option> listOptions()

Returns an enumeration describing the available options.

Specified by:

listOptions in interface OptionHandler

Overrides:

listOptions in class Filter

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:

 -W <clusterer name>
  Full name of clusterer to use. eg:
   weka.clusterers.EM
  Additional options after the '--'.
  (default: weka.clusterers.EM)
 

 -I <att1,att2-att4,...>
  The range of attributes the clusterer should ignore.
  (the class attribute is automatically ignored)
 

Options after the -- are passed on to the clusterer.

Specified by:

setOptions in interface OptionHandler

Overrides:

setOptions in class Filter

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

Overrides:

getOptions in class Filter

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

densityBasedClustererTipText

public String densityBasedClustererTipText()

Returns a description of this option suitable for display as a tip text in the gui.

Returns:

description of this option

setDensityBasedClusterer

public void setDensityBasedClusterer(DensityBasedClusterer newClusterer)

Set the clusterer for use in filtering

Parameters:

newClusterer - the clusterer to use

getDensityBasedClusterer

public DensityBasedClusterer getDensityBasedClusterer()

Get the clusterer used by this filter

Returns:

the clusterer used

ignoredAttributeIndicesTipText

public String ignoredAttributeIndicesTipText()

Returns the tip text for this property

Returns:

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

getIgnoredAttributeIndices

public String getIgnoredAttributeIndices()

Gets ranges of attributes to be ignored.

Returns:

a string containing a comma-separated list of ranges

setIgnoredAttributeIndices

public void setIgnoredAttributeIndices(String rangeList)

Sets the ranges of attributes to be ignored. If provided string is null, no attributes will be ignored.

Parameters:

rangeList - a string representing the list of attributes. eg: first-3,5,6-last

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if an invalid range list is supplied

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