g total amount of runtime taken by the mining process</span>
<span class="sd">        :rtype: float</span>
<span class="sd">        &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>

        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_endTime</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_startTime</span></div>

<div class="viewcode-block" id="kPFPMiner.getPatternsAsDataFrame"><a class="viewcode-back" href="../../../../../p