BotSharp/BotSharp.NLP/Classify/Lidstone.cs
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/*
* BotSharp.NLP Library
* Copyright (C) 2018 Haiping Chen
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
namespace BotSharp.NLP.Classify
{
/// <summary>
/// Lidstone smoothing, is a technique used to smooth categorical data.
/// Given an observation x = (x1, …, xd) from a multinomial distribution with N trials, a "smoothed" version of the data gives the estimator:
/// Refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_smoothing
/// </summary>
public class Lidstone : IEstimator
{
/// <summary>
/// x = (x1, …, xd)
/// </summary>
private int _d;
/// <summary>
/// α > 0 is the smoothing parameter
/// </summary>
private float _a;
/// <summary>
/// N trials
/// </summary>
private int _N;
public Lidstone(float alpha, int bins)
{
_a = alpha;
_d = bins;
}
}
}