coreComponents
Interface NonExchangeableDistance

All Known Implementing Classes:

ValueDifferenceMetric

public interface NonExchangeableDistance

This interface is useful only for classifiers which require the exchangeability assumption to be made about the data - i.e. Confidence and Probability classifiers.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1$

Author:

David Lindsay (davidl@cs.rhul.ac.uk)

Method Summary

double	calculateTentativeDistance(Instance inst1, Instance inst2) Calculate the tentative instance of the classifier.
boolean	setTentativeInstance(Instance inst) Sets the instances which we tentatively update the distance metric for.

Method Detail

setTentativeInstance

public boolean setTentativeInstance(Instance inst)

Sets the instances which we tentatively update the distance metric for.

calculateTentativeDistance

public double calculateTentativeDistance(Instance inst1,
                                         Instance inst2)

Calculate the tentative instance of the classifier.