org.phenotips.data

Interface PatientSpecificityService

@Unstable
@Role
public interface PatientSpecificityService

Computes the patient specificity, a score estimating how "good" a patient record is, be invoking one of the available scorers.

Since:

1.0M12

Version:

$Id: 0a6ce0ae9e133f0028cc4b720848bdee62b1f85f $

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	getScore(Patient patient) Compute the raw specificity score for a patient.
PatientSpecificity	getSpecificity(Patient patient) Compute the specificity score for a patient, along with metadata about the score.

Method Detail

getSpecificity

PatientSpecificity getSpecificity(Patient patient)

Compute the specificity score for a patient, along with metadata about the score.

Parameters:

patient - the patient to score

Returns:

a valid specificity score if the score was successfully computed, null in case of failure

getScore

double getScore(Patient patient)

Compute the raw specificity score for a patient.

Parameters:

patient - the patient to score

Returns:

a score between 0 and 1, or -1 if the score cannot be computed by this scorer