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*/
/*
* OneR.java
* Copyright (C) 1999 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
*
*/
package weka.classifiers.rules;
import weka.classifiers.Classifier;
import weka.classifiers.AbstractClassifier;
import weka.classifiers.Sourcable;
import weka.core.Attribute;
import weka.core.Capabilities;
import weka.core.Instance;
import weka.core.Instances;
import weka.core.Option;
import weka.core.RevisionHandler;
import weka.core.RevisionUtils;
import weka.core.TechnicalInformation;
import weka.core.TechnicalInformationHandler;
import weka.core.Utils;
import weka.core.WekaException;
import weka.core.Capabilities.Capability;
import weka.core.TechnicalInformation.Field;
import weka.core.TechnicalInformation.Type;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Vector;
/**
<!-- globalinfo-start -->
* Class for building and using a 1R classifier; in other words, uses the minimum-error attribute for prediction, discretizing numeric attributes. For more information, see:<br/>
* <br/>
* R.C. Holte (1993). Very simple classification rules perform well on most commonly used datasets. Machine Learning. 11:63-91.
* <p/>
<!-- globalinfo-end -->
*
<!-- technical-bibtex-start -->
* BibTeX:
* <pre>
* @article{Holte1993,
* author = {R.C. Holte},
* journal = {Machine Learning},
* pages = {63-91},
* title = {Very simple classification rules perform well on most commonly used datasets},
* volume = {11},
* year = {1993}
* }
* </pre>
* <p/>
<!-- technical-bibtex-end -->
*
<!-- options-start -->
* Valid options are: <p/>
*
* <pre> -B <minimum bucket size>
* The minimum number of objects in a bucket (default: 6).</pre>
*
<!-- options-end -->
*
* @author Ian H. Witten (ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
* @version $Revision: 5928 $
*/
public class OneR
extends AbstractClassifier
implements TechnicalInformationHandler, Sourcable {
/** for serialization */
static final long serialVersionUID = -2459427002147861445L;
/**
* Returns a string describing classifier
* @return a description suitable for
* displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui
*/
public String globalInfo() {
return "Class for building and using a 1R classifier; in other words, uses "
+ "the minimum-error attribute for prediction, discretizing numeric "
+ "attributes. For more information, see:\n\n"
+ getTechnicalInformation().toString();
}
/**
* Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing
* detailed information about the technical background of this class,
* e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.
*
* @return the technical information about this class
*/
public TechnicalInformation getTechnicalInformation() {
TechnicalInformation result;
result = new TechnicalInformation(Type.ARTICLE);
result.setValue(Field.AUTHOR, "R.C. Holte");
result.setValue(Field.YEAR, "1993");
result.setValue(Field.TITLE, "Very simple classification rules perform well on most commonly used datasets");
result.setValue(Field.JOURNAL, "Machine Learning");
result.setValue(Field.VOLUME, "11");
result.setValue(Field.PAGES, "63-91");
return result;
}
/**
* Class for storing store a 1R rule.
*/
private class OneRRule
implements Serializable, RevisionHandler {
/** for serialization */
static final long serialVersionUID = 1152814630957092281L;
/** The class attribute. */
private Attribute m_class;
/** The number of instances used for building the rule. */
private int m_numInst;
/** Attribute to test */
private Attribute m_attr;
/** Training set examples this rule gets right */
private int m_correct;
/** Predicted class for each value of attr */
private int[] m_classifications;
/** Predicted class for missing values */
private int m_missingValueClass = -1;
/** Breakpoints (numeric attributes only) */
private double[] m_breakpoints;
/**
* Constructor for nominal attribute.
*
* @param data the data to work with
* @param attribute the attribute to use
* @throws Exception if something goes wrong
*/
public OneRRule(Instances data, Attribute attribute) throws Exception {
m_class = data.classAttribute();
m_numInst = data.numInstances();
m_attr = attribute;
m_correct = 0;
m_classifications = new int[m_attr.numValues()];
}
/**
* Constructor for numeric attribute.
*
* @param data the data to work with
* @param attribute the attribute to use
* @param nBreaks the break point
* @throws Exception if something goes wrong
*/
public OneRRule(Instances data, Attribute attribute, int nBreaks) throws Exception {
m_class = data.classAttribute();
m_numInst = data.numInstances();
m_attr = attribute;
m_correct = 0;
m_classifications = new int[nBreaks];
m_breakpoints = new double[nBreaks - 1]; // last breakpoint is infinity
}
/**
* Returns a description of the rule.
*
* @return a string representation of the rule
*/
public String toString() {
try {
StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
text.append(m_attr.name() + ":\n");
for (int v = 0; v < m_classifications.length; v++) {
text.append("\t");
if (m_attr.isNominal()) {
text.append(m_attr.value(v));
} else if (v < m_breakpoints.length) {
text.append("< " + m_breakpoints[v]);
} else if (v > 0) {
text.append(">= " + m_breakpoints[v - 1]);
} else {
text.append("not ?");
}
text.append("\t-> " + m_class.value(m_classifications[v]) + "\n");
}
if (m_missingValueClass != -1) {
text.append("\t?\t-> " + m_class.value(m_missingValueClass) + "\n");
}
text.append("(" + m_correct + "/" + m_numInst + " instances correct)\n");
return text.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
return "Can't print OneR classifier!";
}
}
/**
* Returns the revision string.
*
* @return the revision
*/
public String getRevision() {
return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 5928 $");
}
}
/** A 1-R rule */
private OneRRule m_rule;
/** The minimum bucket size */
private int m_minBucketSize = 6;
/** a ZeroR model in case no model can be built from the data */
private Classifier m_ZeroR;
/**
* Classifies a given instance.
*
* @param inst the instance to be classified
* @return the classification of the instance
*/
public double classifyInstance(Instance inst) throws Exception {
// default model?
if (m_ZeroR != null) {
return m_ZeroR.classifyInstance(inst);
}
int v = 0;
if (inst.isMissing(m_rule.m_attr)) {
if (m_rule.m_missingValueClass != -1) {
return m_rule.m_missingValueClass;
} else {
return 0; // missing values occur in test but not training set
}
}
if (m_rule.m_attr.isNominal()) {
v = (int) inst.value(m_rule.m_attr);
} else {
while (v < m_rule.m_breakpoints.length &&
inst.value(m_rule.m_attr) >= m_rule.m_breakpoints[v]) {
v++;
}
}
return m_rule.m_classifications[v];
}
/**
* Returns default capabilities of the classifier.
*
* @return the capabilities of this classifier
*/
public Capabilities getCapabilities() {
Capabilities result = super.getCapabilities();
result.disableAll();
// attributes
result.enable(Capability.NOMINAL_ATTRIBUTES);
result.enable(Capability.NUMERIC_ATTRIBUTES);
result.enable(Capability.DATE_ATTRIBUTES);
result.enable(Capability.MISSING_VALUES);
// class
result.enable(Capability.NOMINAL_CLASS);
result.enable(Capability.MISSING_CLASS_VALUES);
return result;
}
/**
* Generates the classifier.
*
* @param instances the instances to be used for building the classifier
* @throws Exception if the classifier can't be built successfully
*/
public void buildClassifier(Instances instances)
throws Exception {
boolean noRule = true;
// can classifier handle the data?
getCapabilities().testWithFail(instances);
// remove instances with missing class
Instances data = new Instances(instances);
data.deleteWithMissingClass();
// only class? -> build ZeroR model
if (data.numAttributes() == 1) {
System.err.println(
"Cannot build model (only class attribute present in data!), "
+ "using ZeroR model instead!");
m_ZeroR = new weka.classifiers.rules.ZeroR();
m_ZeroR.buildClassifier(data);
return;
}
else {
m_ZeroR = null;
}
// for each attribute ...
Enumeration enu = instances.enumerateAttributes();
while (enu.hasMoreElements()) {
try {
OneRRule r = newRule((Attribute) enu.nextElement(), data);
// if this attribute is the best so far, replace the rule
if (noRule || r.m_correct > m_rule.m_correct) {
m_rule = r;
}
noRule = false;
} catch (Exception ex) {
}
}
if (noRule)
throw new WekaException("No attributes found to work with!");
}
/**
* Create a rule branching on this attribute.
*
* @param attr the attribute to branch on
* @param data the data to be used for creating the rule
* @return the generated rule
* @throws Exception if the rule can't be built successfully
*/
public OneRRule newRule(Attribute attr, Instances data) throws Exception {
OneRRule r;
// ... create array to hold the missing value counts
int[] missingValueCounts =
new int [data.classAttribute().numValues()];
if (attr.isNominal()) {
r = newNominalRule(attr, data, missingValueCounts);
} else {
r = newNumericRule(attr, data, missingValueCounts);
}
r.m_missingValueClass = Utils.maxIndex(missingValueCounts);
if (missingValueCounts[r.m_missingValueClass] == 0) {
r.m_missingValueClass = -1; // signal for no missing value class
} else {
r.m_correct += missingValueCounts[r.m_missingValueClass];
}
return r;
}
/**
* Create a rule branching on this nominal attribute.
*
* @param attr the attribute to branch on
* @param data the data to be used for creating the rule
* @param missingValueCounts to be filled in
* @return the generated rule
* @throws Exception if the rule can't be built successfully
*/
public OneRRule newNominalRule(Attribute attr, Instances data,
int[] missingValueCounts) throws Exception {
// ... create arrays to hold the counts
int[][] counts = new int [attr.numValues()]
[data.classAttribute().numValues()];
// ... calculate the counts
Enumeration enu = data.enumerateInstances();
while (enu.hasMoreElements()) {
Instance i = (Instance) enu.nextElement();
if (i.isMissing(attr)) {
missingValueCounts[(int) i.classValue()]++;
} else {
counts[(int) i.value(attr)][(int) i.classValue()]++;
}
}
OneRRule r = new OneRRule(data, attr); // create a new rule
for (int value = 0; value < attr.numValues(); value++) {
int best = Utils.maxIndex(counts[value]);
r.m_classifications[value] = best;
r.m_correct += counts[value][best];
}
return r;
}
/**
* Create a rule branching on this numeric attribute
*
* @param attr the attribute to branch on
* @param data the data to be used for creating the rule
* @param missingValueCounts to be filled in
* @return the generated rule
* @throws Exception if the rule can't be built successfully
*/
public OneRRule newNumericRule(Attribute attr, Instances data,
int[] missingValueCounts) throws Exception {
// ... can't be more than numInstances buckets
int [] classifications = new int[data.numInstances()];
double [] breakpoints = new double[data.numInstances()];
// create array to hold the counts
int [] counts = new int[data.classAttribute().numValues()];
int correct = 0;
int lastInstance = data.numInstances();
// missing values get sorted to the end of the instances
data.sort(attr);
while (lastInstance > 0 &&
data.instance(lastInstance-1).isMissing(attr)) {
lastInstance--;
missingValueCounts[(int) data.instance(lastInstance).
classValue()]++;
}
int i = 0;
int cl = 0; // index of next bucket to create
int it;
while (i < lastInstance) { // start a new bucket
for (int j = 0; j < counts.length; j++) counts[j] = 0;
do { // fill it until it has enough of the majority class
it = (int) data.instance(i++).classValue();
counts[it]++;
} while (counts[it] < m_minBucketSize && i < lastInstance);
// while class remains the same, keep on filling
while (i < lastInstance &&
(int) data.instance(i).classValue() == it) {
counts[it]++;
i++;
}
while (i < lastInstance && // keep on while attr value is the same
(data.instance(i - 1).value(attr)
== data.instance(i).value(attr))) {
counts[(int) data.instance(i++).classValue()]++;
}
for (int j = 0; j < counts.length; j++) {
if (counts[j] > counts[it]) {
it = j;
}
}
if (cl > 0) { // can we coalesce with previous class?
if (counts[classifications[cl - 1]] == counts[it]) {
it = classifications[cl - 1];
}
if (it == classifications[cl - 1]) {
cl--; // yes!
}
}
correct += counts[it];
classifications[cl] = it;
if (i < lastInstance) {
breakpoints[cl] = (data.instance(i - 1).value(attr)
+ data.instance(i).value(attr)) / 2;
}
cl++;
}
if (cl == 0) {
throw new Exception("Only missing values in the training data!");
}
OneRRule r = new OneRRule(data, attr, cl); // new rule with cl branches
r.m_correct = correct;
for (int v = 0; v < cl; v++) {
r.m_classifications[v] = classifications[v];
if (v < cl-1) {
r.m_breakpoints[v] = breakpoints[v];
}
}
return r;
}
/**
* Returns an enumeration describing the available options..
*
* @return an enumeration of all the available options.
*/
public Enumeration listOptions() {
String string = "\tThe minimum number of objects in a bucket (default: 6).";
Vector newVector = new Vector(1);
newVector.addElement(new Option(string, "B", 1,
"-B <minimum bucket size>"));
return newVector.elements();
}
/**
* Parses a given list of options. <p/>
*
<!-- options-start -->
* Valid options are: <p/>
*
* <pre> -B <minimum bucket size>
* The minimum number of objects in a bucket (default: 6).</pre>
*
<!-- options-end -->
*
* @param options the list of options as an array of strings
* @throws Exception if an option is not supported
*/
public void setOptions(String[] options) throws Exception {
String bucketSizeString = Utils.getOption('B', options);
if (bucketSizeString.length() != 0) {
m_minBucketSize = Integer.parseInt(bucketSizeString);
} else {
m_minBucketSize = 6;
}
}
/**
* Gets the current settings of the OneR classifier.
*
* @return an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions
*/
public String [] getOptions() {
String [] options = new String [2];
int current = 0;
options[current++] = "-B"; options[current++] = "" + m_minBucketSize;
while (current < options.length) {
options[current++] = "";
}
return options;
}
/**
* Returns a string that describes the classifier as source. The
* classifier will be contained in a class with the given name (there may
* be auxiliary classes),
* and will contain a method with the signature:
* <pre><code>
* public static double classify(Object[] i);
* </code></pre>
* where the array <code>i</code> contains elements that are either
* Double, String, with missing values represented as null. The generated
* code is public domain and comes with no warranty.
*
* @param className the name that should be given to the source class.
* @return the object source described by a string
* @throws Exception if the souce can't be computed
*/
public String toSource(String className) throws Exception {
StringBuffer result;
int i;
result = new StringBuffer();
if (m_ZeroR != null) {
result.append(((ZeroR) m_ZeroR).toSource(className));
}
else {
result.append("class " + className + " {\n");
result.append(" public static double classify(Object[] i) {\n");
result.append(" // chosen attribute: " + m_rule.m_attr.name() + " (" + m_rule.m_attr.index() + ")\n");
result.append("\n");
// missing values
result.append(" // missing value?\n");
result.append(" if (i[" + m_rule.m_attr.index() + "] == null)\n");
if (m_rule.m_missingValueClass != -1)
result.append(" return Double.NaN;\n");
else
result.append(" return 0;\n");
result.append("\n");
// actual prediction
result.append(" // prediction\n");
result.append(" double v = 0;\n");
result.append(" double[] classifications = new double[]{" + Utils.arrayToString(m_rule.m_classifications) + "};");
result.append(" // ");
for (i = 0; i < m_rule.m_classifications.length; i++) {
if (i > 0)
result.append(", ");
result.append(m_rule.m_class.value(m_rule.m_classifications[i]));
}
result.append("\n");
if (m_rule.m_attr.isNominal()) {
for (i = 0; i < m_rule.m_attr.numValues(); i++) {
result.append(" ");
if (i > 0)
result.append("else ");
result.append("if (((String) i[" + m_rule.m_attr.index() + "]).equals(\"" + m_rule.m_attr.value(i) + "\"))\n");
result.append(" v = " + i + "; // " + m_rule.m_class.value(m_rule.m_classifications[i]) + "\n");
}
}
else {
result.append(" double[] breakpoints = new double[]{" + Utils.arrayToString(m_rule.m_breakpoints) + "};\n");
result.append(" while (v < breakpoints.length && \n");
result.append(" ((Double) i[" + m_rule.m_attr.index() + "]) >= breakpoints[(int) v]) {\n");
result.append(" v++;\n");
result.append(" }\n");
}
result.append(" return classifications[(int) v];\n");
result.append(" }\n");
result.append("}\n");
}
return result.toString();
}
/**
* Returns a description of the classifier
*
* @return a string representation of the classifier
*/
public String toString() {
// only ZeroR model?
if (m_ZeroR != null) {
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
buf.append(this.getClass().getName().replaceAll(".*\\.", "") + "\n");
buf.append(this.getClass().getName().replaceAll(".*\\.", "").replaceAll(".", "=") + "\n\n");
buf.append("Warning: No model could be built, hence ZeroR model is used:\n\n");
buf.append(m_ZeroR.toString());
return buf.toString();
}
if (m_rule == null) {
return "OneR: No model built yet.";
}
return m_rule.toString();
}
/**
* Returns the tip text for this property
* @return tip text for this property suitable for
* displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui
*/
public String minBucketSizeTipText() {
return "The minimum bucket size used for discretizing numeric "
+ "attributes.";
}
/**
* Get the value of minBucketSize.
* @return Value of minBucketSize.
*/
public int getMinBucketSize() {
return m_minBucketSize;
}
/**
* Set the value of minBucketSize.
* @param v Value to assign to minBucketSize.
*/
public void setMinBucketSize(int v) {
m_minBucketSize = v;
}
/**
* Returns the revision string.
*
* @return the revision
*/
public String getRevision() {
return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 5928 $");
}
/**
* Main method for testing this class
*
* @param argv the commandline options
*/
public static void main(String [] argv) {
runClassifier(new OneR(), argv);
}
}