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/*
 *    EntropyBasedSplitCrit.java
 *    Copyright (C) 1999 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.classifiers.trees.j48;

/**
 * "Abstract" class for computing splitting criteria
 * based on the entropy of a class distribution.
 *
 * @author Eibe Frank ([email protected])
 * @version $Revision: 1.8 $
 */
public abstract class EntropyBasedSplitCrit
  extends SplitCriterion {

  /** for serialization */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = -2618691439791653056L;

  /** The log of 2. */
  protected static double log2 = Math.log(2);

  /**
   * Help method for computing entropy.
   */
  public final double logFunc(double num) {

    // Constant hard coded for efficiency reasons
    if (num < 1e-6)
      return 0;
    else
      return num*Math.log(num)/log2;
  }

  /**
   * Computes entropy of distribution before splitting.
   */
  public final double oldEnt(Distribution bags) {

    double returnValue = 0;
    int j;

    for (j=0;j