Hint is a hyperinterval finder
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Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Jouke Witteveen <jwitteve@liacs.nl>.
All rights reserved.


About
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Hint takes a numerical database, samples it and using compression techniques determines an interesting hyperinterval (multi-dimensional interval).

The data is fitted to the following interval form:
  [-A-)[-B-](-A-]
where a codelength based on a uniform density on A and B is calculated.

The choice of the splits as model parameters is taken with a uniform prior, which means its cost can be discarded without loss of generality.
This is untrue for comparison to the single uniform density coding [-A-].
Think of the middle interval [-B-] as a luckiness region.


Dependencies
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- Python 3 (as 'python')


Usage
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Usage information of the bare program is available through

  ./source/hint.py --help

The wrappers need access to the main program.
One way to achieve that is by calling them as

  PYTHONPATH=./source/ ./test/source/<wrapper>.py <arguments>