weka.classifiers
Class SingleClassifierEnhancer

java.lang.Object
  weka.classifiers.Classifier
      weka.classifiers.SingleClassifierEnhancer

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, OptionHandler, java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

ClassificationViaRegression, IteratedSingleClassifierEnhancer, LWL, RandomizableSingleClassifierEnhancer, RegressionByDiscretization

public abstract class SingleClassifierEnhancer

extends Classifier

Abstract utility class for handling settings common to meta classifiers that use a single base learner.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected Classifier

m_Classifier The base classifier to use

Fields inherited from class weka.classifiers.Classifier

m_Debug

Constructor Summary

SingleClassifierEnhancer()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	classifierTipText() Returns the tip text for this property
protected java.lang.String	defaultClassifierString() String describing default classifier.
Classifier	getClassifier() Get the classifier used as the base learner.
protected java.lang.String	getClassifierSpec() Gets the classifier specification string, which contains the class name of the classifier and any options to the classifier
java.lang.String[]	getOptions() Gets the current settings of the Classifier.
java.util.Enumeration	listOptions() Returns an enumeration describing the available options.
void	setClassifier(Classifier newClassifier) Set the base learner.
void	setOptions(java.lang.String[] options) Parses a given list of options.

Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.Classifier

buildClassifier, classifyInstance, debugTipText, distributionForInstance, forName, getDebug, makeCopies, setDebug

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

m_Classifier

protected Classifier m_Classifier

The base classifier to use

Constructor Detail

SingleClassifierEnhancer

public SingleClassifierEnhancer()

Method Detail

defaultClassifierString

protected java.lang.String defaultClassifierString()

String describing default classifier.

listOptions

public java.util.Enumeration listOptions()

Returns an enumeration describing the available options.

Specified by:

listOptions in interface OptionHandler

Overrides:

listOptions in class Classifier

Returns:

an enumeration of all the available options.

setOptions

public void setOptions(java.lang.String[] options)
                throws java.lang.Exception

Parses a given list of options. Valid options are:

-W classname
Specify the full class name of the base learner.

Options after -- are passed to the designated classifier.

Specified by:

setOptions in interface OptionHandler

Overrides:

setOptions in class Classifier

Parameters:

options - the list of options as an array of strings

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if an option is not supported

getOptions

public java.lang.String[] getOptions()

Gets the current settings of the Classifier.

Specified by:

getOptions in interface OptionHandler

Overrides:

getOptions in class Classifier

Returns:

an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions

classifierTipText

public java.lang.String classifierTipText()

Returns the tip text for this property

Returns:

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

setClassifier

public void setClassifier(Classifier newClassifier)

Set the base learner.

Parameters:

newClassifier - the classifier to use.

getClassifier

public Classifier getClassifier()

Get the classifier used as the base learner.

Returns:

the classifier used as the classifier

getClassifierSpec

protected java.lang.String getClassifierSpec()

Gets the classifier specification string, which contains the class name of the classifier and any options to the classifier

Returns:

the classifier string