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package org.apache.mahout.classifier.df;

import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;

/**
 * Various methods to compute from the output of a random forest
 */
public final class ErrorEstimate {

  private ErrorEstimate() {
  }
  
  public static double errorRate(double[] labels, double[] predictions) {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(labels.length == predictions.length, "labels.length != predictions.length");
    double nberrors = 0; // number of instance that got bad predictions
    double datasize = 0; // number of classified instances

    for (int index = 0; index < labels.length; index++) {
      if (predictions[index] == -1) {
        continue; // instance not classified
      }

      if (predictions[index] != labels[index]) {
        nberrors++;
      }

      datasize++;
    }

    return nberrors / datasize;
  }

}