OK . The TanimotoCoefficientSimilarity and LogLikelihoodSimilarity used in MIA page 54 and 55 provide a score, so it seems they were not using a Boolean recommender , something like code 1 maybe? Thanks
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes any metric that concerns estimated value vs real value can't be > used since all values are 1. Yes, when you use the non-boolean version > with boolean data you always get 1. When you use the boolean version > with boolean data you will get nonsense since the output of this > recommender is not an estimated rating at all. > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Zia mel <ziad.kame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I got 0 when I used GenericUserBasedRecommender in code 2 but when >> using GenericBooleanPrefUserBasedRecommender score was not 0 . I >> repeat the test with different data and again I got some results. >> Moreover , when I use >> DataModel model = new FileDataModel(new File("ua.base")); >> in code 2, the MAE score was higher. >> >> When you say RMSE can't be used with boolean data, I assume MAE also >> can't be used? >> >> Thanks ! >> >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> RMSE can't >>> be used with boolean data.