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/*
 *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 */

/*
 *    PairedCorrectedTTester.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2003-2012 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.experiment;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Enumeration;

import weka.core.Attribute;
import weka.core.Instance;
import weka.core.Instances;
import weka.core.Option;
import weka.core.RevisionUtils;
import weka.core.TechnicalInformation;
import weka.core.TechnicalInformation.Field;
import weka.core.TechnicalInformation.Type;
import weka.core.TechnicalInformationHandler;
import weka.core.Utils;

/**
 * Behaves the same as PairedTTester, only it uses the corrected resampled
 * t-test statistic.
 * 

 * 
 * For more information see:
 * 

 * 
 *  Claude Nadeau, Yoshua Bengio (2001).
 * Inference for the Generalization Error. Machine Learning.. 
 * 
 * 

 * 
 *  BibTeX:
 * 
 * 
 * @article{Nadeau2001,
 *    author = {Claude Nadeau and Yoshua Bengio},
 *    journal = {Machine Learning},
 *    title = {Inference for the Generalization Error},
 *    year = {2001},
 *    PDF = {http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/\~lisa/bib/pub_subject/comparative/pointeurs/nadeau_MLJ1597.pdf}
 * }
 * 
 * 

 * 
 * 
 *  Valid options are:
 * 

 * 
 * 
 * -D <index,index2-index4,...>
 *  Specify list of columns that specify a unique
 *  dataset.
 *  First and last are valid indexes. (default none)
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -R <index>
 *  Set the index of the column containing the run number
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -F <index>
 *  Set the index of the column containing the fold number
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -G <index1,index2-index4,...>
 *  Specify list of columns that specify a unique
 *  'result generator' (eg: classifier name and options).
 *  First and last are valid indexes. (default none)
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -S <significance level>
 *  Set the significance level for comparisons (default 0.05)
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -V
 *  Show standard deviations
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -L
 *  Produce table comparisons in Latex table format
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -csv
 *  Produce table comparisons in CSV table format
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -html
 *  Produce table comparisons in HTML table format
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -significance
 *  Produce table comparisons with only the significance values
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * -gnuplot
 *  Produce table comparisons output suitable for GNUPlot
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * @author Richard Kirkby ([email protected])
 * @version $Revision: 10203 $
 */
public class PairedCorrectedTTester extends PairedTTester implements
  TechnicalInformationHandler {

  /** for serialization */
  static final long serialVersionUID = -3105268939845653323L;

  /**
   * Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed
   * information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper
   * reference or book this class is based on.
   * 
   * @return the technical information about this class
   */
  @Override
  public TechnicalInformation getTechnicalInformation() {
    TechnicalInformation result;

    result = new TechnicalInformation(Type.ARTICLE);
    result.setValue(Field.AUTHOR, "Claude Nadeau and Yoshua Bengio");
    result.setValue(Field.YEAR, "2001");
    result.setValue(Field.TITLE, "Inference for the Generalization Error");
    result.setValue(Field.JOURNAL, "Machine Learning");
    result
      .setValue(
        Field.PDF,
        "http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/bib/pub_subject/comparative/pointeurs/nadeau_MLJ1597.pdf");

    return result;
  }

  /**
   * Computes a paired t-test comparison for a specified dataset between two
   * resultsets.
   * 
   * @param datasetSpecifier the dataset specifier
   * @param resultset1Index the index of the first resultset
   * @param resultset2Index the index of the second resultset
   * @param comparisonColumn the column containing values to compare
   * @return the results of the paired comparison
   * @throws Exception if an error occurs
   */
  @Override
  public PairedStats calculateStatistics(Instance datasetSpecifier,
    int resultset1Index, int resultset2Index, int comparisonColumn)
    throws Exception {

    if (m_Instances.attribute(comparisonColumn).type() != Attribute.NUMERIC) {
      throw new Exception("Comparison column " + (comparisonColumn + 1) + " ("
        + m_Instances.attribute(comparisonColumn).name() + ") is not numeric");
    }
    if (!m_ResultsetsValid) {
      prepareData();
    }

    Resultset resultset1 = (Resultset) m_Resultsets.get(resultset1Index);
    Resultset resultset2 = (Resultset) m_Resultsets.get(resultset2Index);
    ArrayList dataset1 = resultset1.dataset(datasetSpecifier);
    ArrayList dataset2 = resultset2.dataset(datasetSpecifier);
    String datasetName = templateString(datasetSpecifier);
    if (dataset1 == null) {
      throw new Exception("No results for dataset=" + datasetName
        + " for resultset=" + resultset1.templateString());
    } else if (dataset2 == null) {
      throw new Exception("No results for dataset=" + datasetName
        + " for resultset=" + resultset2.templateString());
    } else if (dataset1.size() != dataset2.size()) {
      throw new Exception("Results for dataset=" + datasetName
        + " differ in size for resultset=" + resultset1.templateString()
        + " and resultset=" + resultset2.templateString());
    }

    // calculate the test/train ratio
    double testTrainRatio = 0.0;
    int trainSizeIndex = -1;
    int testSizeIndex = -1;
    // find the columns with the train/test sizes
    for (int i = 0; i < m_Instances.numAttributes(); i++) {
      if (m_Instances.attribute(i).name().toLowerCase()
        .equals("number_of_training_instances")) {
        trainSizeIndex = i;
      } else if (m_Instances.attribute(i).name().toLowerCase()
        .equals("number_of_testing_instances")) {
        testSizeIndex = i;
      }
    }
    if (trainSizeIndex >= 0 && testSizeIndex >= 0) {
      double totalTrainSize = 0.0;
      double totalTestSize = 0.0;
      for (int k = 0; k < dataset1.size(); k++) {
        Instance current = dataset1.get(k);
        totalTrainSize += current.value(trainSizeIndex);
        totalTestSize += current.value(testSizeIndex);
      }
      testTrainRatio = totalTestSize / totalTrainSize;
    }
    PairedStats pairedStats = new PairedStatsCorrected(m_SignificanceLevel,
      testTrainRatio);

    for (int k = 0; k < dataset1.size(); k++) {
      Instance current1 = dataset1.get(k);
      Instance current2 = dataset2.get(k);
      if (current1.isMissing(comparisonColumn)) {
        System.err.println("Instance has missing value in comparison "
          + "column!\n" + current1);
        continue;
      }
      if (current2.isMissing(comparisonColumn)) {
        System.err.println("Instance has missing value in comparison "
          + "column!\n" + current2);
        continue;
      }
      if (current1.value(m_RunColumn) != current2.value(m_RunColumn)) {
        System.err.println("Run numbers do not match!\n" + current1 + current2);
      }
      if (m_FoldColumn != -1) {
        if (current1.value(m_FoldColumn) != current2.value(m_FoldColumn)) {
          System.err.println("Fold numbers do not match!\n" + current1
            + current2);
        }
      }

      double value1 = current1.value(comparisonColumn);
      double value2 = current2.value(comparisonColumn);
      pairedStats.add(value1, value2);
    }
    pairedStats.calculateDerived();
    return pairedStats;
  }

  /**
   * Test the class from the command line.
   * 
   * @param args contains options for the instance ttests
   */
  public static void main(String args[]) {

    try {
      PairedCorrectedTTester tt = new PairedCorrectedTTester();
      String datasetName = Utils.getOption('t', args);
      String compareColStr = Utils.getOption('c', args);
      String baseColStr = Utils.getOption('b', args);
      boolean summaryOnly = Utils.getFlag('s', args);
      boolean rankingOnly = Utils.getFlag('r', args);
      try {
        if ((datasetName.length() == 0) || (compareColStr.length() == 0)) {
          throw new Exception("-t and -c options are required");
        }
        tt.setOptions(args);
        Utils.checkForRemainingOptions(args);
      } catch (Exception ex) {
        String result = "";
        Enumeration enu = tt.listOptions();
        while (enu.hasMoreElements()) {
          Option option = enu.nextElement();
          result += option.synopsis() + '\n' + option.description() + '\n';
        }
        throw new Exception("Usage:\n\n" + "-t \n"
          + "\tSet the dataset containing data to evaluate\n" + "-b \n"
          + "\tSet the resultset to base comparisons against (optional)\n"
          + "-c \n" + "\tSet the column to perform a comparison on\n"
          + "-s\n" + "\tSummarize wins over all resultset pairs\n\n" + "-r\n"
          + "\tGenerate a resultset ranking\n\n" + result);
      }
      Instances data = new Instances(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(
        datasetName)));
      tt.setInstances(data);
      // tt.prepareData();
      int compareCol = Integer.parseInt(compareColStr) - 1;
      System.out.println(tt.header(compareCol));
      if (rankingOnly) {
        System.out.println(tt.multiResultsetRanking(compareCol));
      } else if (summaryOnly) {
        System.out.println(tt.multiResultsetSummary(compareCol));
      } else {
        System.out.println(tt.resultsetKey());
        if (baseColStr.length() == 0) {
          for (int i = 0; i < tt.getNumResultsets(); i++) {
            System.out.println(tt.multiResultsetFull(i, compareCol));
          }
        } else {
          int baseCol = Integer.parseInt(baseColStr) - 1;
          System.out.println(tt.multiResultsetFull(baseCol, compareCol));
        }
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      System.err.println(e.getMessage());
    }
  }

  /**
   * returns the name of the tester
   * 
   * @return the display name
   */
  @Override
  public String getDisplayName() {
    return "Paired T-Tester (corrected)";
  }

  /**
   * returns a string that is displayed as tooltip on the "perform test" button
   * in the experimenter
   * 
   * @return the string for the tool tip
   */
  @Override
  public String getToolTipText() {
    return "Performs test using corrected resampled t-test statistic (Nadeau and Bengio)";
  }

  /**
   * Returns the revision string.
   * 
   * @return the revision
   */
  @Override
  public String getRevision() {
    return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 10203 $");
  }
}