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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2013 Villu Ruusmann
 *
 * This file is part of JPMML-Evaluator
 *
 * JPMML-Evaluator is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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 */
package org.jpmml.evaluator;

/**
 * 
 * A marker interface for classification results that provide a probability distribution.
 * 
 *
 * 
 * Probability represents a degree of certainty that the sample belongs to a particular category.
 * Probabilities are required to sum to 1 across all categories.
 * Ideally, the probability of the predicted category should approach 1.0, and the probabilities of all other categories should approach 0.0.
 * 
 *
 * @see org.dmg.pmml.ResultFeature#PROBABILITY
 */
public interface HasProbability extends CategoricalResultFeature {

	/**
	 * 
	 * Gets the probability of the specified category.
	 * 
	 *
	 * @return A probability in the range from 0.0 to 1.0.
	 * The probability of an unknown category is 0.0.
	 *
	 * @see #getCategoryValues()
	 */
	Double getProbability(String value);
}