SMO confidence measure in weka

Question

I\'m writing a classification code using the smo class of weka. But what i\'m yet to find is a confidence measure of the classification of an instance. It alway

Answer 1

Ok I figured out how to get this in case it might help someone. Get the source code for SMO.java and add it to your package. Resolve imports if any. Set m_fitLogisticModels to true. Change smo.buildClassifier(train, cl1, cl2, false, -1, -1); to smo.buildClassifier(train, cl1, cl2, true, -1, -1);. And viola ! distributionForInstance returns confidence scores instead of a hard 0/1.