source: branches/Operator Architecture Refactoring/HeuristicLab.Modeling/3.3/SimpleVarianceAccountedForEvaluator.cs @ 2553

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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;

namespace HeuristicLab.Modeling {
  /// <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 SimpleVarianceAccountedForEvaluator : SimpleEvaluatorBase {

    public override string OutputVariableName {
      get {
        return "VAF";
      }
    }

    public override double Evaluate(double[,] values) {
      return Calculate(values);
    }

    public static double Calculate(double[,] values) {
      int n = values.GetLength(0);
      double[] errors = new double[n];
      double[] originalTargetVariableValues = new double[n];
      for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        double estimated = values[i, 0];
        double original = values[i, 1];
        if (!double.IsNaN(estimated) && !double.IsInfinity(estimated) &&
          !double.IsNaN(original) && !double.IsInfinity(original)) {
          errors[i] = original - estimated;
          originalTargetVariableValues[i] = original;
        } else {
          errors[i] = double.NaN;
          originalTargetVariableValues[i] = double.NaN;
        }
      }
      double errorsVariance = Statistics.Variance(errors);
      double originalsVariance = Statistics.Variance(originalTargetVariableValues);
      double quality = 1 - errorsVariance / originalsVariance;

      return quality;
    }
  }
}