weka.estimators
Class PoissonEstimator

java.lang.Object
  extended by weka.estimators.Estimator
      extended by weka.estimators.PoissonEstimator
All Implemented Interfaces:
java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, CapabilitiesHandler, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler, IncrementalEstimator

public class PoissonEstimator
extends Estimator
implements IncrementalEstimator

Simple probability estimator that places a single Poisson distribution over the observed values.

Version:
$Revision: 5540 $
Author:
Len Trigg (trigg@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
See Also:
Serialized Form

Constructor Summary
PoissonEstimator()
           
 
Method Summary
 void addValue(double data, double weight)
          Add a new data value to the current estimator.
 Capabilities getCapabilities()
          Returns default capabilities of the classifier.
 double getProbability(double data)
          Get a probability estimate for a value
 java.lang.String getRevision()
          Returns the revision string.
static void main(java.lang.String[] argv)
          Main method for testing this class.
 java.lang.String toString()
          Display a representation of this estimator
 
Methods inherited from class weka.estimators.Estimator
addValues, addValues, addValues, addValues, buildEstimator, buildEstimator, clone, debugTipText, equals, forName, getDebug, getOptions, listOptions, makeCopies, makeCopy, setDebug, setOptions, testCapabilities
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

PoissonEstimator

public PoissonEstimator()
Method Detail

addValue

public void addValue(double data,
                     double weight)
Add a new data value to the current estimator.

Specified by:
addValue in interface IncrementalEstimator
Overrides:
addValue in class Estimator
Parameters:
data - the new data value
weight - the weight assigned to the data value

getProbability

public double getProbability(double data)
Get a probability estimate for a value

Specified by:
getProbability in class Estimator
Parameters:
data - the value to estimate the probability of
Returns:
the estimated probability of the supplied value

toString

public java.lang.String toString()
Display a representation of this estimator

Overrides:
toString in class java.lang.Object

getCapabilities

public Capabilities getCapabilities()
Returns default capabilities of the classifier.

Specified by:
getCapabilities in interface CapabilitiesHandler
Overrides:
getCapabilities in class Estimator
Returns:
the capabilities of this classifier
See Also:
Capabilities

getRevision

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

Specified by:
getRevision in interface RevisionHandler
Returns:
the revision

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] argv)
Main method for testing this class.

Parameters:
argv - should contain a sequence of numeric values