source: branches/ProblemInstancesRegressionAndClassification/HeuristicLab.Problems.Instances.Regression/3.4/ValueGenerator.cs @ 7682

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using HeuristicLab.Random;
namespace HeuristicLab.Problems.Instances.Regression {
  public class ValueGenerator {
    protected static FastRandom rand = new FastRandom();

    public static List<double> GenerateSteps(double start, double end, double stepWidth) {
      return Enumerable.Range(0, (int)Math.Round(((end - start) / stepWidth) + 1))
                                      .Select(i => (start + i * stepWidth))
                                      .ToList<double>();
    }

    public static List<double> GenerateUniformDistributedValues(int amount, double start, double end) {
      List<double> values = new List<double>();
      for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++) {
        values.Add(rand.NextDouble() * (end - start) + start);
      }
      return values;
    }

    public static List<double> GenerateNormalDistributedValues(int amount, double mu, double sigma) {
      List<double> values = new List<double>();
      for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++) {
        values.Add(NormalDistributedRandom.NextDouble(rand, mu, sigma));
      }
      return values;
    }

    public static List<List<double>> GenerateAllCombinationsOfValuesInLists(List<List<double>> sets) {

      var combinations = new List<List<double>>();

      foreach (var value in sets[0])
        combinations.Add(new List<double> { value });

      foreach (var set in sets.Skip(1))
        combinations = AddListToCombinations(combinations, set);

      combinations = (from i in Enumerable.Range(0, sets.Count)
                      select (from list in combinations
                              select list.ElementAt(i)).ToList<double>()).ToList<List<double>>();

      return combinations;
    }

    private static List<List<double>> AddListToCombinations
         (List<List<double>> combinations, List<double> set) {
      var newCombinations = from value in set
                            from combination in combinations
                            select new List<double>(combination) { value };

      return newCombinations.ToList();
    }
  }
}