AttributeEvaluator

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChiSquaredAttributeEval, CostSensitiveAttributeEval, FilteredAttributeEval, GainRatioAttributeEval, InfoGainAttributeEval, LatentSemanticAnalysis, OneRAttributeEval, PrincipalComponents, ReliefFAttributeEval, SVMAttributeEval, SymmetricalUncertAttributeEval, UnsupervisedAttributeEvaluator
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public interface AttributeEvaluator
```
Interface for classes that evaluate attributes individually.

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $

Author:

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

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  double evaluateAttribute(int attribute)
  evaluates an individual attribute

- Method Detail
  - evaluateAttribute
```
double evaluateAttribute(int attribute)
                  throws java.lang.Exception
```
    evaluates an individual attribute
    
    Parameters:
    
    attribute - the index of the attribute to be evaluated
    
    Returns:
    
    the "merit" of the attribute
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.Exception - if the attribute could not be evaluated