weka.associations
Interface Associator

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAssociator, Apriori, FilteredAssociator, FPGrowth, SingleAssociatorEnhancer

public interface Associator

Method Summary

void	buildAssociations(Instances data) Generates an associator.
Capabilities	getCapabilities() Returns the Capabilities of this associator.

Method Detail

buildAssociations

void buildAssociations(Instances data)
                       throws Exception

Generates an associator. Must initialize all fields of the associator that are not being set via options (ie. multiple calls of buildAssociator must always lead to the same result). Must not change the dataset in any way.

Parameters:

data - set of instances serving as training data

Throws:

Exception - if the associator has not been generated successfully

getCapabilities

Capabilities getCapabilities()

Returns the Capabilities of this associator. Derived associators have to override this method to enable capabilities.

Returns:

the capabilities of this object

See Also:

Capabilities