Re: [Cdk-devel] add weka program

[Egon W. <e.w...@sc...>]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 16:14, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 15:12 +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:58, Miguel Rojas Cherto wrote:
> > I remember we chatted about this, but the current API looks weird: it
> > does not indicate how X and Y data should be passed.
>
> The original idea was that some modeling routines might not take doubles
> (such as when using categorical variables). 

Right... that was it.

> The only constant thing I 
> could see was that a modeling routine would require X and Y variables.
> Thus I didn't specify the exact types of these variables.
>
> I would say  that the current signature is fine - if a specific modeling
> package required a stronger type definition, they could subclass IModel
> and provide the specific types it wants.
>
> Does this make sense?

How does Weka address this?

Egon

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