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PHP Probability Selector: Decide which item to select based on probabilities

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This class can decide which item to select based on probabilities.

It can take a parameter, a list of items with identifiers, probability weight, and usage count.

The class can calculate probabilities based on the item weight and usage count and decide the next item to use. The identifier of the selected item is returned.

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Some applications need to select items from a list automatically. For instance, applications that need to assign jobs to a list of servers.

This class implements an algorithm that considers the number of times the items on a list was used and probability weights assigned to each item to decide which item should be used next time automatically.

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PHP Probability Selector

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Selection manager for choosing next elements to use from data source based on uniform distribution of selections.

Infinite iteration

use Smoren\ProbabilitySelector\ProbabilitySelector;

$ps = new ProbabilitySelector([
    // data     // weight  // initial usage counter
    ['first',   1,         0],
    ['second',  2,         0],
    ['third',   3,         4],
]);

foreach ($ps as $datum) {
    echo "{$datum}, ";
}
// second, second, first, second, third, third, second, first, third, second, third, third, second, first, third, ...

Iteration limit and export

use Smoren\ProbabilitySelector\ProbabilitySelector;

$ps = new ProbabilitySelector([
    // data     // weight
    ['first',   1],
    ['second',  2],
]);
foreach ($ps->getIterator(6) as $datum) {
    echo "{$datum}, ";
}
// second, second, first, second, second, first

print_r($ps->export());
/*
[
    ['first',  1, 2],
    ['second', 2, 4],
]
 */

Single decision

use Smoren\ProbabilitySelector\ProbabilitySelector;

$ps = new ProbabilitySelector([
    // data     // weight
    ['first',   1],
    ['second',  2],
]);
$ps->decide(); // second
$ps->decide(); // second
$ps->decide(); // first

Unit testing

composer install
composer test-init
composer test

Standards

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License

PHP Probability Selector is licensed under the MIT License.


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