Look at doEstimatePreference().

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:16 PM, a a <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sean
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> Switching to a Jaccard coefficient based ItemSimilarity already improved 
> things tremendously.
>>You can change the estimation to account for "certainty" in some way.
>>For example, you could divide the estimate by the weighted standard
>>deviation of that series that was averaged to make the estimate. The
>>result is no longer an estimate of a rating, but is probably going to
>>give much more sane results.
> In order to do this, which part of the code should I  change? is it 
> https://builds.apache.org/job/Mahout-Quality/javadoc/org/apache/mahout/cf/taste/recommender/Recommender.html#estimatePreference%28long,%20long%29
>  ?

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