weka.associations

Interface CARuleMiner

All Superinterfaces:

OptionHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

Apriori, PredictiveApriori

public interface CARuleMiner
extends OptionHandler

Interface for learning class association rules. All schemes for learning class association rules implemement this interface.

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $

Author:

Stefan Mutter (mutter@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Instances	getInstancesNoClass() Gets the instances without the class attribute
Instances	getInstancesOnlyClass() Gets the class attribute and its values for all instances
String	metricString() Gets name of the scoring metric used for car mining
FastVector[]	mineCARs(Instances data) Method for mining class association rules.
void	setClassIndex(int index) Sets the class index for the class association rule miner

Methods inherited from interface weka.core.OptionHandler

getOptions, listOptions, setOptions

Method Detail

mineCARs

FastVector[] mineCARs(Instances data)
               throws Exception

Method for mining class association rules. Must initialize all fields of the CARuleMiner that are not being set via options (ie. multiple calls of mineCARs must always lead to the same result). Must not change the dataset in any way.

Parameters:

data - the insatnces for which class association rules are mined

Returns:

class association rules and their scoring metric in an FastVector array

Throws:

Exception - throws exception if class association rules cannot be mined

getInstancesNoClass

Instances getInstancesNoClass()

Gets the instances without the class attribute

Returns:

the instances withoput the class attribute

getInstancesOnlyClass

Instances getInstancesOnlyClass()

Gets the class attribute and its values for all instances

Returns:

the class attribute and its values for all instances

metricString

String metricString()

Gets name of the scoring metric used for car mining

Returns:

string containing the name of the scoring metric

setClassIndex

void setClassIndex(int index)

Sets the class index for the class association rule miner

Parameters:

index - the class index