[jira] [Closed] (DATAFU-2) UDFs for entropy and weighted sampling algorithms

["Matthew Hayes (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Matthew Hayes closed DATAFU-2.
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> UDFs for entropy and weighted sampling algorithms
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>                 Key: DATAFU-2
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DATAFU-2
>             Project: DataFu
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Matthew Hayes
>            Assignee: Matthew Hayes
>             Fix For: 1.3.0
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>         Attachments: 0001-create-initial-version-of-entroy-UDFs.patch, 0002-update-a-few-comments-and-error-messages.patch, 0003-fix-a-bug-in-Entropy.accumulate-to-use-getFreq-metho.patch, 0004-update-entropy-implementation-following-code-review-.patch, 0005-update-javadocs.patch, 0006-update-javadocs.patch, 0007-update-the-javadocs-of-streaming-empirical-entropy-a.patch, 0008-update-entropy-udfs-based-on-code-review.patch, 0009-Implement-and-experiment-with-different-weighted-sam.patch, 0010-update-weighted-reservoir-sampler-constructor-unit-t.patch, 0011-update-licence-headers-and-move-streaming-entropy-to.patch, 0012-add-missing-licence-header.patch
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> Jian Wang has suggested that we add UDFs for entropy and weighted random sampling and has implementations for each of these ready.
> In Jian's words:
> "In the real world, there are occasions we need to calculate the entropy of discrete random variables, for instance, to calculate the mutual information between variable X and Y using its entropy-based formula(mutual information calculation could be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_information#Relation_to_other_quantities). Would suggest to implement a UDF to calculate the entropy of given input samples, following the definition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%28information_theory%29
> This is the reference paper I use to learn about the weighted sampleing algorithm: http://utopia.duth.gr/~pefraimi/research/data/2007EncOfAlg.pdf
> The present WeightedSample.java implements the Algorithm D.
> We may try Algorithm A, A-res and A-expJ since they could be used in a data stream and distributed environment. These algorithms could be implemented based on ReservoirSample.java(inherit from this class?) since they also need a reservior to store the selected items."



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