source: branches/3.2/sources/HeuristicLab.GP.StructureIdentification.ConditionalEvaluation/3.3/ConditionalVarianceAccountedForEvaluator.cs @ 4062

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Data;
using HeuristicLab.DataAnalysis;
using HeuristicLab.Modeling;

namespace HeuristicLab.GP.StructureIdentification.ConditionalEvaluation {
  /// <summary>
  /// The Variance Accounted For (VAF) function calculates is computed as
  /// VAF(y,y') = ( 1 - var(y-y')/var(y) )
  /// where y' denotes the predicted / modelled values for y and var(x) the variance of a signal x.
  /// </summary>
  public class ConditionalVarianceAccountedForEvaluator : ConditionalEvaluatorBase {
    public override string OutputVariableName {
      get {
        return "VAF";
      }
    }
    public override string Description {
      get {
        return @"Evaluates 'FunctionTree' for all samples of 'DataSet' and calculates 
the variance-accounted-for quality measure for the estimated values vs. the real values of 'TargetVariable'.

The Variance Accounted For (VAF) function is computed as
VAF(y,y') = ( 1 - var(y-y')/var(y) )
where y' denotes the predicted / modelled values for y and var(x) the variance of a signal x.";
      }
    }

    public override double Evaluate(double[,] values) {
      try { return SimpleVarianceAccountedForEvaluator.Calculate(values); }
      catch (ArgumentException) {
        return double.NegativeInfinity;
      }
    }
  }
}