com.rapidminer.operator.preprocessing.outlier
Class DBOutlierOperator

java.lang.Object
  com.rapidminer.operator.Operator
      com.rapidminer.operator.AbstractExampleSetProcessing
          com.rapidminer.operator.preprocessing.outlier.AbstractOutlierDetection
              com.rapidminer.operator.preprocessing.outlier.DBOutlierOperator

All Implemented Interfaces:

ConfigurationListener, PreviewListener, ParameterHandler, LoggingHandler

public class DBOutlierOperator
extends AbstractOutlierDetection

This operator is a DB outlier detection algorithm which calculates the DB(p,D)-outliers for an ExampleSet passed to the operator. DB(p,D)-outliers are Distance based outliers according to Knorr and Ng. A DB(p,D)-outlier is an object to which at least a proportion of p of all objects are farer away than distance D. It implements a global homogenous outlier search.

Currently, the operator supports cosine, sine or squared distances in addition to the usual euclidian distance which can be specified by the corresponding parameter. The operator takes two other real-valued parameters p and D. Depending on these parameters, search objects will be created from the examples in the ExampleSet passed to the operator. These search objects will be added to a search space which will perform the outlier search according to the DB(p,D) scheme.

The Outlier status (boolean in its nature) is written to a new special attribute "Outlier" and is passed on with the example set.

Author:

Stephan Deutsch, Ingo Mierswa

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	PARAMETER_DISTANCE The parameter name for "The distance for objects.
static java.lang.String	PARAMETER_DISTANCE_FUNCTION The parameter name for "Indicates which distance function will be used for calculating the distance between two objects"
static java.lang.String	PARAMETER_PROPORTION The parameter name for "The proportion of objects related to D.

Constructor Summary

DBOutlierOperator(OperatorDescription description)

Method Summary

ExampleSet	apply(ExampleSet eSet) This method implements the main functionality of the Operator but can be considered as a sort of wrapper to pass the RapidMiner operator chain data deeper into the SearchSpace class, so do not expect a lot of things happening here.
java.util.List<ParameterType>	getParameterTypes() Returns a list of ParameterTypes describing the parameters of this operator.

Methods inherited from class com.rapidminer.operator.AbstractExampleSetProcessing

apply, getInputClasses, getOutputClasses

Methods inherited from class com.rapidminer.operator.Operator

addError, addValue, addWarning, apply, checkDeprecations, checkForStop, checkIO, checkProperties, clearErrorList, cloneOperator, createExperimentTree, createExperimentTree, createFromXML, createMarkedExperimentTree, createMarkedProcessTree, createProcessTree, createProcessTree, getAddOnlyAdditionalOutput, getApplyCount, getDeliveredOutputClasses, getDeprecationInfo, getDesiredInputClasses, getEncoding, getErrorList, getExperiment, getInnerOperatorsXML, getInput, getInput, getInput, getInputDescription, getIOContainerForInApplyLoopBreakpoint, getIODescription, getLog, getName, getOperatorClassName, getOperatorDescription, getParameter, getParameterAsBoolean, getParameterAsColor, getParameterAsDouble, getParameterAsFile, getParameterAsFile, getParameterAsInputStream, getParameterAsInt, getParameterAsMatrix, getParameterAsString, getParameterList, getParameters, getParameterType, getParent, getProcess, getStartTime, getStatus, getUserDescription, getValue, getValues, getXML, hasBreakpoint, hasBreakpoint, hasInput, inApplyLoop, isDebugMode, isEnabled, isExpanded, isParallel, isParameterSet, log, logError, logNote, logWarning, performAdditionalChecks, processFinished, processStarts, register, registerOperator, remove, rename, resume, setApplyCount, setBreakpoint, setEnabled, setExpanded, setInput, setListParameter, setOperatorParameters, setParameter, setParameters, setParent, setUserDescription, toString, unregisterOperator, writeXML

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

PARAMETER_DISTANCE

public static final java.lang.String PARAMETER_DISTANCE

The parameter name for "The distance for objects."

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Constant Field Values

PARAMETER_PROPORTION

public static final java.lang.String PARAMETER_PROPORTION

The parameter name for "The proportion of objects related to D."

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Constant Field Values

PARAMETER_DISTANCE_FUNCTION

public static final java.lang.String PARAMETER_DISTANCE_FUNCTION

The parameter name for "Indicates which distance function will be used for calculating the distance between two objects"

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

DBOutlierOperator

public DBOutlierOperator(OperatorDescription description)

Method Detail

apply

public ExampleSet apply(ExampleSet eSet)
                 throws OperatorException

This method implements the main functionality of the Operator but can be considered as a sort of wrapper to pass the RapidMiner operator chain data deeper into the SearchSpace class, so do not expect a lot of things happening here.

Specified by:

apply in class AbstractExampleSetProcessing

Throws:

OperatorException

getParameterTypes

public java.util.List<ParameterType> getParameterTypes()

Description copied from class: Operator

Returns a list of ParameterTypes describing the parameters of this operator. The default implementation returns an empty list if no input objects can be retained and special parameters for those input objects which can be prevented from being consumed.

Specified by:

getParameterTypes in interface ParameterHandler

Overrides:

getParameterTypes in class Operator