weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute
Class FirstOrder

java.lang.Object
  weka.filters.Filter
      weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.FirstOrder

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, CapabilitiesHandler, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler, StreamableFilter, UnsupervisedFilter

public class FirstOrder
extends Filter
implements UnsupervisedFilter, StreamableFilter, OptionHandler

This instance filter takes a range of N numeric attributes and replaces them with N-1 numeric attributes, the values of which are the difference between consecutive attribute values from the original instance. eg:

Original attribute values

0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.1, 0.3

New attribute values

0.1, 0.1, -0.2, 0.2

The range of attributes used is taken in numeric order. That is, a range spec of 7-11,3-5 will use the attribute ordering 3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11 for the differences, NOT 7,8,9,10,11,3,4,5.

Valid options are:

 -R <index1,index2-index4,...>
  Specify list of columns to take the differences between.
  First and last are valid indexes.
  (default none)

Version:

$Revision: 8034 $

Author:

Len Trigg (trigg@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

FirstOrder()

Method Summary

String	attributeIndicesTipText() Returns the tip text for this property
String	getAttributeIndices() Get the current range selection
Capabilities	getCapabilities() Returns the Capabilities of this filter.
String[]	getOptions() Gets the current settings of the filter.
String	getRevision() Returns the revision string.
String	globalInfo() Returns a string describing this filter
boolean	input(Instance instance) Input an instance for filtering.
Enumeration	listOptions() Returns an enumeration describing the available options.
static void	main(String[] argv) Main method for testing this class.
void	setAttributeIndices(String rangeList) Set which attributes are to be deleted (or kept if invert is true)
void	setAttributeIndicesArray(int[] attributes) Set which attributes are to be deleted (or kept if invert is true)
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, batchFinished, 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

FirstOrder

public FirstOrder()

Method Detail

globalInfo

public String globalInfo()

Returns a string describing this filter

Returns:

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

listOptions

public Enumeration listOptions()

Returns 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:

 -R <index1,index2-index4,...>
  Specify list of columns to take the differences between.
  First and last are valid indexes.
  (default none)

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

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 if the outputFormat may be collected immediately

Throws:

UnsupportedAttributeTypeException - if any of the selected attributes are not numeric

Exception - if only one attribute has been selected.

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 defined.

attributeIndicesTipText

public String attributeIndicesTipText()

Returns the tip text for this property

Returns:

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

getAttributeIndices

public String getAttributeIndices()

Get the current range selection

Returns:

a string containing a comma separated list of ranges

setAttributeIndices

public void setAttributeIndices(String rangeList)
                         throws Exception

Set which attributes are to be deleted (or kept if invert is true)

Parameters:

rangeList - a string representing the list of attributes. Since the string will typically come from a user, attributes are indexed from 1.
eg: first-3,5,6-last

Throws:

Exception - if an invalid range list is supplied

setAttributeIndicesArray

public void setAttributeIndicesArray(int[] attributes)
                              throws Exception

Set which attributes are to be deleted (or kept if invert is true)

Parameters:

attributes - an array containing indexes of attributes to select. Since the array will typically come from a program, attributes are indexed from 0.

Throws:

Exception - if an invalid set of ranges 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