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## weka.classifiers.misc
Class VFI

    java.lang.Object
      weka.classifiers.Classifier
          weka.classifiers.misc.VFI

All Implemented Interfaces:
  java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, CapabilitiesHandler, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler, TechnicalInformationHandler, WeightedInstancesHandler

    public class VFI

extends Classifier
implements OptionHandler, WeightedInstancesHandler, TechnicalInformationHandler

Classification by voting feature intervals. Intervals are constucted around each class for each attribute (basically discretization). Class counts are recorded for each interval on each attribute. Classification is by voting. For more info see:
G. Demiroz, A. Guvenir: Classification by voting feature intervals. In: 9th European Conference on Machine Learning, 85-92, 1997.
Have added a simple attribute weighting scheme. Higher weight is assigned to more confident intervals, where confidence is a function of entropy:
weight (att_i) = (entropy of class distrib att_i / max uncertainty)^-bias

BibTeX:

     @inproceedings{Demiroz1997,
        author = {G. Demiroz and A. Guvenir},
        booktitle = {9th European Conference on Machine Learning},
        pages = {85-92},
        publisher = {Springer},
        title = {Classification by voting feature intervals},
        year = {1997}
     }

Faster than NaiveBayes but slower than HyperPipes.

      Confidence: 0.01 (two tailed)

     Dataset                   (1) VFI '-B  | (2) Hyper (3) Naive
                             ------------------------------------
     anneal.ORIG               (10)   74.56 |   97.88 v   74.77
     anneal                    (10)   71.83 |   97.88 v   86.51 v
     audiology                 (10)   51.69 |   66.26 v   72.25 v
     autos                     (10)   57.63 |   62.79 v   57.76
     balance-scale             (10)   68.72 |   46.08 *   90.5  v
     breast-cancer             (10)   67.25 |   69.84 v   73.12 v
     wisconsin-breast-cancer   (10)   95.72 |   88.31 *   96.05 v
     horse-colic.ORIG          (10)   66.13 |   70.41 v   66.12
     horse-colic               (10)   78.36 |   62.07 *   78.28
     credit-rating             (10)   85.17 |   44.58 *   77.84 *
     german_credit             (10)   70.81 |   69.89 *   74.98 v
     pima_diabetes             (10)   62.13 |   65.47 v   75.73 v
     Glass                     (10)   56.82 |   50.19 *   47.43 *
     cleveland-14-heart-diseas (10)   80.01 |   55.18 *   83.83 v
     hungarian-14-heart-diseas (10)   82.8  |   65.55 *   84.37 v
     heart-statlog             (10)   79.37 |   55.56 *   84.37 v
     hepatitis                 (10)   83.78 |   63.73 *   83.87
     hypothyroid               (10)   92.64 |   93.33 v   95.29 v
     ionosphere                (10)   94.16 |   35.9  *   82.6  *
     iris                      (10)   96.2  |   91.47 *   95.27 *
     kr-vs-kp                  (10)   88.22 |   54.1  *   87.84 *
     labor                     (10)   86.73 |   87.67     93.93 v
     lymphography              (10)   78.48 |   58.18 *   83.24 v
     mushroom                  (10)   99.85 |   99.77 *   95.77 *
     primary-tumor             (10)   29    |   24.78 *   49.35 v
     segment                   (10)   77.42 |   75.15 *   80.1  v
     sick                      (10)   65.92 |   93.85 v   92.71 v
     sonar                     (10)   58.02 |   57.17     67.97 v
     soybean                   (10)   86.81 |   86.12 *   92.9  v
     splice                    (10)   88.61 |   41.97 *   95.41 v
     vehicle                   (10)   52.94 |   32.77 *   44.8  *
     vote                      (10)   91.5  |   61.38 *   90.19 *
     vowel                     (10)   57.56 |   36.34 *   62.81 v
     waveform                  (10)   56.33 |   46.11 *   80.02 v
     zoo                       (10)   94.05 |   94.26     95.04 v
                              ------------------------------------
                                    (v| |*) |  (9|3|23)  (22|5|8)

Valid options are:

     -C
      Don't weight voting intervals by confidence

     -B <bias>
      Set exponential bias towards confident intervals
      (default = 1.0)

Version:
  $Revision: 6308 $
Author:
  Mark Hall (mhall@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
See Also:
  Serialized Form

Constructor Summary
`VFI()`

Method Summary
`java.lang.String` | `biasTipText()` Returns the tip text for this property
`void` | `buildClassifier(Instances instances)` Generates the classifier.
`double[]` | `distributionForInstance(Instance instance)` Classifies the given test instance.
`double` | `getBias()` Get the value of the bias parameter
`Capabilities` | `getCapabilities()` Returns default capabilities of the classifier.
`java.lang.String[]` | `getOptions()` Gets the current settings of VFI
`java.lang.String` | `getRevision()` Returns the revision string.
`TechnicalInformation` | `getTechnicalInformation()` Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.
`boolean` | `getWeightByConfidence()` Get whether feature intervals are being weighted by confidence
`java.lang.String` | `globalInfo()` Returns a string describing this search method
`java.util.Enumeration` | `listOptions()` Returns an enumeration describing the available options.
`static void` | `main(java.lang.String[] args)` Main method for testing this class.
`void` | `setBias(double b)` Set the value of the exponential bias towards more confident intervals
`void` | `setOptions(java.lang.String[] options)` Parses a given list of options.
`void` | `setWeightByConfidence(boolean c)` Set weighting by confidence
`java.lang.String` | `toString()` Returns a description of this classifier.
`java.lang.String` | `weightByConfidenceTipText()` Returns the tip text for this property

Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.Classifier
`classifyInstance, debugTipText, forName, getDebug, makeCopies, makeCopy, setDebug`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### VFI

    public VFI()

Method Detail

### globalInfo

    public java.lang.String globalInfo()

  Returns a string describing this search method

  Returns:
    a description of the search method suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

### getTechnicalInformation

    public TechnicalInformation getTechnicalInformation()

  Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.

  Specified by:
    `getTechnicalInformation` in interface `TechnicalInformationHandler`
  Returns:
    the technical information about this class

### 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:

       -C
        Don't weight voting intervals by confidence

       -B <bias>
        Set exponential bias towards confident intervals
        (default = 1.0)

  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

### weightByConfidenceTipText

    public java.lang.String weightByConfidenceTipText()

  Returns the tip text for this property

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

### setWeightByConfidence

    public void setWeightByConfidence(boolean c)

  Set weighting by confidence

  Parameters:
    `c` - true if feature intervals are to be weighted by confidence

### getWeightByConfidence

    public boolean getWeightByConfidence()

  Get whether feature intervals are being weighted by confidence

  Returns:
    true if weighting by confidence is selected

### biasTipText

    public java.lang.String biasTipText()

  Returns the tip text for this property

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

### setBias

    public void setBias(double b)

  Set the value of the exponential bias towards more confident intervals

  Parameters:
    `b` - the value of the bias parameter

### getBias

    public double getBias()

  Get the value of the bias parameter

  Returns:
    the bias parameter

### getOptions

    public java.lang.String[] getOptions()

  Gets the current settings of VFI

  Specified by:
    `getOptions` in interface `OptionHandler`
  Overrides:
    `getOptions` in class `Classifier`
  Returns:
    an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions()

### getCapabilities

    public Capabilities getCapabilities()

  Returns default capabilities of the classifier.

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

### buildClassifier

    public void buildClassifier(Instances instances)
                         throws java.lang.Exception

  Generates the classifier.

  Specified by:
    `buildClassifier` in class `Classifier`
  Parameters:
    `instances` - set of instances serving as training data
  Throws:
    `java.lang.Exception` - if the classifier has not been generated successfully

### toString

    public java.lang.String toString()

  Returns a description of this classifier.

  Overrides:
    `toString` in class `java.lang.Object`
  Returns:
    a description of this classifier as a string.

### distributionForInstance

    public double[] distributionForInstance(Instance instance)
                                     throws java.lang.Exception

  Classifies the given test instance.

  Overrides:
    `distributionForInstance` in class `Classifier`
  Parameters:
    `instance` - the instance to be classified
  Returns:
    the predicted class for the instance
  Throws:
    `java.lang.Exception` - if the instance can't be classified

### getRevision

    public java.lang.String getRevision()

  Returns the revision string.

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

### main

    public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

  Main method for testing this class.

  Parameters:
    `args` - should contain command line arguments for evaluation (see Evaluation).

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