Weight by Uncertainty (RapidMiner Studio Core)

Synopsis

This operator calculates the relevance of attributes of the given ExampleSet by measuring the symmetrical uncertainty with respect to the class.

Description

The Weight by Uncertainty operator calculates the weight of attributes with respect to the label attribute by measuring the symmetrical uncertainty with respect to the class. The higher the weight of an attribute, the more relevant it is considered. Please note that this operator can be only applied on ExampleSets with nominal label. The relevance is calculated by the following formula:

relevance = 2 * (P(Class) - P(Class | Attribute)) / P(Class) + P(Attribute)

Input

example set (Data Table)
This input port expects an ExampleSet. It is output of the Retrieve operator in the attached Example Process.

Output

weights (Attribute Weights)
This port delivers the weights of the attributes with respect to the label attribute. The attributes with higher weight are considered more relevant.
example set (Data Table)
The ExampleSet that was given as input is passed without changing to the output through this port. This is usually used to reuse the same ExampleSet in further operators or to view the ExampleSet in the Results Workspace.

Parameters

normalize_weightsThis parameter indicates if the calculated weights should be normalized or not. If set to true, all weights are normalized in a range from 0 to 1. Range: boolean
sort_weightsThis parameter indicates if the attributes should be sorted according to their weights in the results. If this parameter is set to true, the order of the sorting is specified using the sort direction parameter. Range: boolean
sort_directionThis parameter is only available when the sort weights parameter is set to true. This parameter specifies the sorting order of the attributes according to their weights. Range: selection
normalizeThis parameter indicates if the standard deviation should be divided by the minimum, maximum, or average of the attribute. Range: selection
number_of_binsThis parameter specifies the number of bins to be used. Range: integer

Tutorial Processes

Calculating the attribute weights of the Golf data set

The 'Golf' data set is loaded using the Retrieve operator. The Weight by Uncertainty operator is applied on it to calculate the weights of the attributes. All parameters are used with default values. The normalize weights parameter is set to true, thus all the weights will be normalized in a range from 0 to 1. The sort weights parameter is set to true and the sort direction parameter is set to 'ascending', thus the results will be in ascending order of the weights. You can verify this by viewing the results of this process in the Results Workspace.