IntervalEstimator

All Known Implementing Classes:

GaussianProcesses, RegressionByDiscretization
```
public interface IntervalEstimator
```
Interface for numeric prediction schemes that can output prediction intervals.

Version:

$Revision: 8034 $

Author:

Kurt Driessens (kurtd@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`double[][]`	`predictIntervals(Instance inst, double confidenceLevel)`	Returns an N * 2 array, where N is the number of prediction intervals.

- Method Detail
  - predictIntervals
```
double[][] predictIntervals(Instance inst,
                            double confidenceLevel)
                     throws java.lang.Exception
```
    Returns an N * 2 array, where N is the number of prediction intervals. In each row, the first element contains the lower boundary of the corresponding prediction interval and the second element the upper boundary.
    
    Parameters:
    
    inst - the instance to make the prediction for.
    
    confidenceLevel - the percentage of cases that the interval should cover.
    
    Returns:
    
    an array of prediction intervals
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.Exception - if the intervals can't be computed