net.sf.tweety.machinelearning.assoc

Class AbstractAssociationRuleMiner<T>

java.lang.Object

net.sf.tweety.machinelearning.assoc.AbstractAssociationRuleMiner<T>

Type Parameters:

T - the type of items

All Implemented Interfaces:

AssociationRuleMiner<T>

Direct Known Subclasses:

AprioriMiner

public abstract class AbstractAssociationRuleMiner<T>
extends Object
implements AssociationRuleMiner<T>

Abstract layer for association rule miners, bundles common methods.

Author:

Matthias Thimm

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractAssociationRuleMiner()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Collection<AssociationRule<T>>	mineRules(Collection<Collection<T>> database) Mines a set of association rules from the given database.
Collection<AssociationRule<T>>	mineRules(Collection<Collection<T>> database, int conclusion_limit) Mines a set of association rules from the given database.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.tweety.machinelearning.assoc.AssociationRuleMiner

mineRules

Constructor Detail

AbstractAssociationRuleMiner

public AbstractAssociationRuleMiner()

Method Detail

mineRules

public Collection<AssociationRule<T>> mineRules(Collection<Collection<T>> database)

Description copied from interface: AssociationRuleMiner

Mines a set of association rules from the given database.

Specified by:

mineRules in interface AssociationRuleMiner<T>

Parameters:

database - some database

Returns:

a set of association rules.

mineRules

public Collection<AssociationRule<T>> mineRules(Collection<Collection<T>> database,
                                                int conclusion_limit)

Description copied from interface: AssociationRuleMiner

Mines a set of association rules from the given database. Only those rules are mined where the conclusion has the maximal given number of elements.

Specified by:

mineRules in interface AssociationRuleMiner<T>

Parameters:

database - some database

Returns:

a set of association rules.