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Class weka.attributeSelection.ASSearch

java.lang.Object
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public abstract class ASSearch

extends Object

implements Serializable

Version:

$Revision: 1.5 $

Author:

Mark Hall (mhall@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

ASSearch()

forName(String, String[])

Creates a new instance of a search class given it's class name and (optional) arguments to pass to it's setOptions method.

search(ASEvaluation, Instances)

Searches the attribute subset/ranking space.

 public ASSearch()

 public abstract int[] search(ASEvaluation ASEvaluator,
                              Instances data) throws Exception

Searches the attribute subset/ranking space.

Parameters:

ASEvaluator - the attribute evaluator to guide the search

data - the training instances.

Returns:

an array (not necessarily ordered) of selected attribute indexes

Throws: Exception

if the search can't be completed

 public static ASSearch forName(String searchName,
                                String options[]) throws Exception

Creates a new instance of a search class given it's class name and (optional) arguments to pass to it's setOptions method. If the search method implements OptionHandler and the options parameter is non-null, the search method will have it's options set.

Parameters:

searchName - the fully qualified class name of the search class

options - an array of options suitable for passing to setOptions. May be null.

Returns:

the newly created search object, ready for use.

Throws: Exception

if the search class name is invalid, or the options supplied are not acceptable to the search class.

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