marf.Stats.StatisticalEstimators.Smoothing
Class Smoothing

java.lang.Object
  marf.Storage.StorageManager
      marf.Stats.StatisticalEstimators.StatisticalEstimator
          marf.Stats.StatisticalEstimators.Smoothing.Smoothing

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, IStatisticalEstimator, ISmoothing, IStorageManager

Direct Known Subclasses:

AddDelta, GoodTuring, WittenBell

public abstract class Smoothing
extends StatisticalEstimator
implements ISmoothing

Generic Smoothing Estimator implementation. Most statistical smoothing classes should extend this class. If they can't, they must implement the ISmoothing interface. TODO: complete exception handling.

$Id: Smoothing.java,v 1.15 2006/01/15 06:58:08 mokhov Exp $

Since:

0.3.0.2

Version:

$Revision: 1.15 $

Author:

Serguei Mokhov

See Also:

ISmoothing, Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class marf.Stats.StatisticalEstimators.StatisticalEstimator

oProbabilityTable, oStreamTokenizer

Fields inherited from class marf.Storage.StorageManager

bDumpOnNotFound, iCurrentDumpMode, oObjectToSerialize, strFilename

Fields inherited from interface marf.Stats.StatisticalEstimators.Smoothing.ISmoothing

MARF_INTERFACE_CODE_REVISION

Fields inherited from interface marf.Stats.StatisticalEstimators.IStatisticalEstimator

MARF_INTERFACE_CODE_REVISION

Fields inherited from interface marf.Storage.IStorageManager

DUMP_BINARY, DUMP_CSV_TEXT, DUMP_GZIP_BINARY, DUMP_HTML, DUMP_SQL, DUMP_XML, MARF_INTERFACE_CODE_REVISION, STORAGE_FILE_EXTENSIONS

Constructor Summary

Smoothing()
Default constructor with a call to the parent.

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	getMARFSourceCodeRevision() Returns source code revision information.
boolean	train() This generic implementation first calls super.train(), then smooth(), and then dump().

Methods inherited from class marf.Stats.StatisticalEstimators.StatisticalEstimator

backSynchronizeObject, dumpCSV, dumpXML, getFilename, getLanguage, getProbabilityTable, getStreamTokenizer, p, resetFilename, restoreCSV, restoreXML, setLanguage, setStreamTokenizer

Methods inherited from class marf.Storage.StorageManager

clone, dump, dumpBinary, dumpGzipBinary, dumpHTML, dumpSQL, enableDumpOnNotFound, equals, getDefaultExtension, getDefaultExtension, getDumpMode, getObjectToSerialize, hashCode, restore, restoreBinary, restoreGzipBinary, restoreHTML, restoreSQL, setDumpMode, setFilename, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface marf.Stats.StatisticalEstimators.Smoothing.ISmoothing

smooth

Constructor Detail

Smoothing

public Smoothing()

Default constructor with a call to the parent.

Method Detail

train

public boolean train()

This generic implementation first calls super.train(), then smooth(), and then dump().

Specified by:

train in interface IStatisticalEstimator

Overrides:

train in class StatisticalEstimator

Returns:

true if training was successful

See Also:

IStatisticalEstimator.train()

getMARFSourceCodeRevision

public static java.lang.String getMARFSourceCodeRevision()

Returns source code revision information.

Returns:

revision string