com.cloudera.oryx.app.rdf.tree

Interface TreeBasedClassifier

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DecisionForest, DecisionTree

public interface TreeBasedClassifier
extends Serializable

Base interface for decision-tree-based classifiers in this package, whether they be a single DecisionTree or a collection of them as a DecisionForest.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Prediction	predict(Example test)
void	update(Example train) Requests that the implementation update its internal state to reflect a new Example.

Method Detail

predict

Prediction predict(Example test)

Parameters:

test - example whose target value is to be predicated

Returns:

a Prediction of the target value

update

void update(Example train)

Requests that the implementation update its internal state to reflect a new Example. In this case, the Example should carry a target value to learn from.

Parameters:

train - new training example