ErrorMeasure.h

/*          
 *             Copyright (C) 2005 Maarten Keijzer
 *
 *          This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *          it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as 
 *          published by the Free Software Foundation. 
 *
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 *          but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *          MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *          GNU General Public License for more details.
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 *          Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 */

#ifndef ERROR_MEASURE_H
#define ERROR_MEASURE_H

#include "Scaling.h"

class ErrorMeasureImpl;
class Sym;
class Dataset;

class ErrorMeasure {
    
    ErrorMeasureImpl* pimpl;
    
    public :

        enum measure {
            absolute,
            mean_squared,
            mean_squared_scaled,
        };
        
        struct result {
            double  error;
            Scaling scaling;
            
            result();
            bool valid() const;
        };
        
        ErrorMeasure(const Dataset& data, double train_perc, measure meas = mean_squared);
        
        ~ErrorMeasure();
        ErrorMeasure(const ErrorMeasure& that);
        ErrorMeasure& operator=(const ErrorMeasure& that);
        
        result calc_error(Sym sym);

        std::vector<result> calc_error(const std::vector<Sym>& sym);
        
        double worst_performance() const;
};

#endif

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