diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/random/RandomSampler.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/random/RandomSampler.scala
index deee3a9c6b2c5..fd941d2ebed8b 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/random/RandomSampler.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/random/RandomSampler.scala
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ class BernoulliSampler[T](lb: Double, ub: Double, complement: Boolean = false)
     }
   }
 
-  def cloneComplement() = new BernoulliSampler[T](lb, ub, !complement)
+  /**
+   *  Return a sampler with is the complement of the range specified of the current sampler.
+   */ 
+  def cloneComplement():  BernoulliSampler[T] = new BernoulliSampler[T](lb, ub, !complement)
 
   override def clone = new BernoulliSampler[T](lb, ub, complement)
 }
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.scala
index 0fbb606267f9b..7112ada039de1 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.scala
@@ -21,14 +21,13 @@ import scala.reflect.ClassTag
 
 import breeze.linalg.{Vector => BV, DenseVector => BDV, SparseVector => BSV,
   squaredDistance => breezeSquaredDistance}
+import org.jblas.DoubleMatrix
 
 import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.PartitionwiseSampledRDD
 import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._
 import org.apache.spark.util.random.BernoulliSampler
-
-import org.jblas.DoubleMatrix
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.{Vector, Vectors}
 
@@ -179,13 +178,13 @@ object MLUtils {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Return a k element list of pairs of RDDs with the first element of each pair
+   * Return a k element array of pairs of RDDs with the first element of each pair
    * containing the validation data, a unique 1/Kth of the data and the second
-   * element, the training data, contain the compliment of that.
+   * element, the training data, contain the complement of that.
    */
-  def kFold[T : ClassTag](rdd: RDD[T], numFolds: Int, seed: Int): Array[(RDD[T], RDD[T])] = {
+  def kFold[T: ClassTag](rdd: RDD[T], numFolds: Int, seed: Int): Array[(RDD[T], RDD[T])] = {
     val numFoldsF = numFolds.toFloat
-    (1 to numFolds).map  { fold =>
+    (1 to numFolds).map { fold =>
       val sampler = new BernoulliSampler[T]((fold - 1) / numFoldsF, fold / numFoldsF,
         complement = false)
       val validation = new PartitionwiseSampledRDD(rdd, sampler, seed)
diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtilsSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtilsSuite.scala
index 92428ff6e44d8..1ce4948108a80 100644
--- a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtilsSuite.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtilsSuite.scala
@@ -120,25 +120,25 @@ class MLUtilsSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
       for (seed <- 1 to 5) {
         val foldedRdds = MLUtils.kFold(data, folds, seed)
         assert(foldedRdds.size === folds)
-        foldedRdds.map { case (test, train) =>
-          val result = test.union(train).collect().sorted
-          val testSize = test.collect().size.toFloat
-          assert(testSize > 0, "empty test data")
+        foldedRdds.map { case (validation, training) =>
+          val result = validation.union(training).collect().sorted
+          val validationSize = validation.collect().size.toFloat
+          assert(validationSize > 0, "empty validation data")
           val p = 1 / folds.toFloat
           // Within 3 standard deviations of the mean
-          val range = 3 * math.sqrt(100 * p * (1-p))
+          val range = 3 * math.sqrt(100 * p * (1 - p))
           val expected = 100 * p
           val lowerBound = expected - range
           val upperBound = expected + range
-          assert(testSize > lowerBound,
-            s"Test data ($testSize) smaller than expected ($lowerBound)" )
-          assert(testSize < upperBound,
-            s"Test data ($testSize) larger than expected ($upperBound)" )
-          assert(train.collect().size > 0, "empty training data")
+          assert(validationSize > lowerBound,
+            s"Validation data ($validationSize) smaller than expected ($lowerBound)" )
+          assert(validationSize < upperBound,
+            s"Validation data ($validationSize) larger than expected ($upperBound)" )
+          assert(training.collect().size > 0, "empty training data")
           assert(result ===  collectedData,
-            "Each training+test set combined should contain all of the data.")
+            "Each training+validation set combined should contain all of the data.")
         }
-        // K fold cross validation should only have each element in the test set exactly once
+        // K fold cross validation should only have each element in the validation set exactly once
         assert(foldedRdds.map(_._1).reduce((x,y) => x.union(y)).collect().sorted ===
           data.collect().sorted)
       }