AbstractRatingSet Class

Detailed Documentation

General

AbstractRatingSet is a non-instantiable base class of instantiable sub-classes.

Notes

Rating sets are collections of ratings with the same RatingSpecification ID. A rating set may have one or more ratings, each with its own effective time, and can be thought of as an irregluar time series of ratings.

Ratings (and thus rating sets) may have one or more independent parameters and one dependent parameter. Reverse rating is possible only with ratings with a single independent parameter.

AbstractRatingSet provides:

• signatures for methods required in sub-classes

• implementation of methods with common code

The instantiable sub-classes are:

• ReferenceRatingSet

• LocalRatingSet