weka.clusterers
Class SingleClustererEnhancer

java.lang.Object
  weka.clusterers.AbstractClusterer
      weka.clusterers.SingleClustererEnhancer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, Clusterer, CapabilitiesHandler, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler

Direct Known Subclasses:

FilteredClusterer

public abstract class SingleClustererEnhancer
extends AbstractClusterer
implements OptionHandler

Meta-clusterer for enhancing a base clusterer.

Version:

$Revision: 8034 $

Author:

FracPete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

SingleClustererEnhancer()

Method Summary

String	clustererTipText() Returns the tip text for this property
Capabilities	getCapabilities() Returns default capabilities of the clusterer.
Clusterer	getClusterer() Get the clusterer used as the base clusterer.
String[]	getOptions() Gets the current settings of the clusterer.
Enumeration	listOptions() Returns an enumeration describing the available options.
int	numberOfClusters() Returns the number of clusters.
void	setClusterer(Clusterer value) Set the base clusterer.
void	setOptions(String[] options) Parses a given list of options.

Methods inherited from class weka.clusterers.AbstractClusterer

buildClusterer, clusterInstance, distributionForInstance, forName, getRevision, makeCopies, makeCopy, runClusterer

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SingleClustererEnhancer

public SingleClustererEnhancer()

Method Detail

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.

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 clusterer.

Specified by:

getOptions in interface OptionHandler

Returns:

an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions

clustererTipText

public String clustererTipText()

Returns the tip text for this property

Returns:

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

setClusterer

public void setClusterer(Clusterer value)

Set the base clusterer.

Parameters:

value - the classifier to use.

getClusterer

public Clusterer getClusterer()

Get the clusterer used as the base clusterer.

Returns:

the base clusterer

getCapabilities

public Capabilities getCapabilities()

Returns default capabilities of the clusterer.

Specified by:

getCapabilities in interface Clusterer

Specified by:

getCapabilities in interface CapabilitiesHandler

Overrides:

getCapabilities in class AbstractClusterer

Returns:

the capabilities of this clusterer

See Also:

Capabilities

numberOfClusters

public int numberOfClusters()
                     throws Exception

Returns the number of clusters.

Specified by:

numberOfClusters in interface Clusterer

Specified by:

numberOfClusters in class AbstractClusterer

Returns:

the number of clusters generated for a training dataset.

Throws:

Exception - if number of clusters could not be returned successfully