weka.classifiers.bayes.net.estimate
Class BMAEstimator

java.lang.Object
  extended by weka.classifiers.bayes.net.estimate.BayesNetEstimator
      extended by weka.classifiers.bayes.net.estimate.SimpleEstimator
          extended by weka.classifiers.bayes.net.estimate.BMAEstimator
All Implemented Interfaces:
java.io.Serializable, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler

public class BMAEstimator
extends SimpleEstimator

BMAEstimator estimates conditional probability tables of a Bayes network using Bayes Model Averaging (BMA).

Valid options are:

 -k2
  Whether to use K2 prior.
 
 -A <alpha>
  Initial count (alpha)
 

Version:
$Revision: 1.8 $
Author:
Remco Bouckaert (rrb@xm.co.nz)
See Also:
Serialized Form

Constructor Summary
BMAEstimator()
           
 
Method Summary
 void estimateCPTs(BayesNet bayesNet)
          estimateCPTs estimates the conditional probability tables for the Bayes Net using the network structure.
 java.lang.String[] getOptions()
          Gets the current settings of the classifier.
 java.lang.String getRevision()
          Returns the revision string.
 java.lang.String globalInfo()
          Returns a string describing this object
 void initCPTs(BayesNet bayesNet)
          initCPTs reserves space for CPTs and set all counts to zero
 boolean isUseK2Prior()
          Returns whether K2 prior is used
 java.util.Enumeration listOptions()
          Returns an enumeration describing the available options
 void setOptions(java.lang.String[] options)
          Parses a given list of options.
 void setUseK2Prior(boolean bUseK2Prior)
          Sets the UseK2Prior.
 void updateClassifier(BayesNet bayesNet, Instance instance)
          Updates the classifier with the given instance.
 
Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.bayes.net.estimate.SimpleEstimator
distributionForInstance
 
Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.bayes.net.estimate.BayesNetEstimator
alphaTipText, getAlpha, setAlpha
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

BMAEstimator

public BMAEstimator()
Method Detail

globalInfo

public java.lang.String globalInfo()
Returns a string describing this object

Overrides:
globalInfo in class SimpleEstimator
Returns:
a description of the classifier suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

estimateCPTs

public void estimateCPTs(BayesNet bayesNet)
                  throws java.lang.Exception
estimateCPTs estimates the conditional probability tables for the Bayes Net using the network structure.

Overrides:
estimateCPTs in class SimpleEstimator
Parameters:
bayesNet - the bayes net to use
Throws:
java.lang.Exception - if an error occurs

updateClassifier

public void updateClassifier(BayesNet bayesNet,
                             Instance instance)
                      throws java.lang.Exception
Updates the classifier with the given instance.

Overrides:
updateClassifier in class SimpleEstimator
Parameters:
bayesNet - the bayes net to use
instance - the new training instance to include in the model
Throws:
java.lang.Exception - if the instance could not be incorporated in the model.

initCPTs

public void initCPTs(BayesNet bayesNet)
              throws java.lang.Exception
initCPTs reserves space for CPTs and set all counts to zero

Overrides:
initCPTs in class SimpleEstimator
Parameters:
bayesNet - the bayes net to use
Throws:
java.lang.Exception - if something goes wrong

isUseK2Prior

public boolean isUseK2Prior()
Returns whether K2 prior is used

Returns:
true if K2 prior is used

setUseK2Prior

public void setUseK2Prior(boolean bUseK2Prior)
Sets the UseK2Prior.

Parameters:
bUseK2Prior - The bUseK2Prior to set

listOptions

public java.util.Enumeration listOptions()
Returns an enumeration describing the available options

Specified by:
listOptions in interface OptionHandler
Overrides:
listOptions in class BayesNetEstimator
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:

 -k2
  Whether to use K2 prior.
 
 -A <alpha>
  Initial count (alpha)
 

Specified by:
setOptions in interface OptionHandler
Overrides:
setOptions in class BayesNetEstimator
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 BayesNetEstimator
Returns:
an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions

getRevision

public java.lang.String getRevision()
Returns the revision string.

Specified by:
getRevision in interface RevisionHandler
Overrides:
getRevision in class SimpleEstimator
Returns:
the revision