Association Rules

Author(s):  
Paul D. McNicholas ◽  
Yanchang Zhao

Association rules present one of the most versatile techniques for the analysis of binary data, with applications in areas as diverse as retail, bioinformatics, and sociology. In this chapter, the origin of association rules is discussed along with the functions by which association rules are traditionally characterised. Following the formal definition of an association rule, these functions – support, confidence and lift – are defined and various methods of rule generation are presented, spanning 15 years of development. There is some discussion about negations and negative association rules and an analogy between association rules and 2×2 tables is outlined. Pruning methods are discussed, followed by an overview of measures of interestingness. Finally, the post-mining stage of the association rule paradigm is put in the context of the preceding stages of the mining process.

Author(s):  
Ioannis N. Kouris

Research in association rules mining has initially concentrated in solving the obvious problem of finding positive association rules; that is rules among items that exist in the stored transactions. It was only several years after that the possibility of finding also negative association rules became especially appealing and was investigated. Nevertheless researchers based their assumptions regarding negative association rules on the absence of items from transactions. This assumption though besides being dubious, since it equated the absence of an item with a conflict or negative effect on the rest items, it also brought out a series of computational problems with the amount of possible patterns that had to be examined and analyzed. In this work we give an overview of the works having engaged with the subject until now and present a novel view for the definition of negative influence among items.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajid Mahmood ◽  
Muhammad Shahbaz ◽  
Aziz Guergachi

Association rule mining research typically focuses on positive association rules (PARs), generated from frequently occurring itemsets. However, in recent years, there has been a significant research focused on finding interesting infrequent itemsets leading to the discovery of negative association rules (NARs). The discovery of infrequent itemsets is far more difficult than their counterparts, that is, frequent itemsets. These problems include infrequent itemsets discovery and generation of accurate NARs, and their huge number as compared with positive association rules. In medical science, for example, one is interested in factors which can either adjudicate the presence of a disease or write-off of its possibility. The vivid positive symptoms are often obvious; however, negative symptoms are subtler and more difficult to recognize and diagnose. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for discovering positive and negative association rules among frequent and infrequent itemsets. We identify associations among medications, symptoms, and laboratory results using state-of-the-art data mining technology.


Author(s):  
D. Gandhimathi ◽  
N. Anbazhagan

Association rules analysis is a basic technique to expose how items/patterns are associated to each other. There are two common ways to measure association such as Support and Confidence. Several methods have been proposed in the literature to diminish the number of extracted association rules. Association Rule Mining is one of the greatest current data mining techniques designed to group objects together from huge databases aiming to take out the motivating correlation and relation with massive quantity of data. Association rule mining is used to discover the associated patterns from datasets. In this paper, we propose association rules from new methods on web usage mining. Generally, web usage log structure has several records so we have to overcome those unwanted records from large dataset. First of all the pre-processed data from the NASA dataset is clustered by the popular K-Means algorithm. Subsequently, the matrix calculation is progressed on that data. Further, the associations are performed on filtered data and get rid of the final associated page results. Positive and negative association rules are gathered by using new algorithm with Annul Object (𝒜𝒪). Wherever the object “𝒜𝒪” is presented those rules are known as negative association rule.  Otherwise, the rules are positive association rules.


2010 ◽  
Vol 171-172 ◽  
pp. 445-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
He Jiang ◽  
Ze Bai ◽  
Guo Ling Liu ◽  
Xiu Mei Luan

Research on negative association rule in multidimensional data mining is few. In this paper, an algorithm MPNAR is put forward to mine positive and negative association rules in multidimensional data. With the help of the basis of the minimum support and minimum confidence, this algorithm divided the multidimensional datasets into infrequent itemsets and frequent itemsets. The negative association rules could be mined from infrequent itemsets. Relative to the single positive association rule mining, the new additional negative association rules need not repeatedly read database because two types of association rules were simultaneously mined. Experiments show that the algorithm method is effective and valuable.


Author(s):  
Jianchao Han ◽  
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Mohsen Beheshti

Mining association rules is an important task of dara mining and knowledge discovery. Traditional association rules mining is built on transaction databases, which has some limitations. Two of these limitations are 1) each transaction merely contains binary items, meaning that an item either occurs in a transaction or not; 2) only positive association rules are discovered, while negative associations are ignored. Mining fuzzy association rules has been proposed to address the first limitation, while mining algorithms for negative association rules have been developed to resolve the second limitation. In this paper, we combine these two approaches to propose a novel approach for mining both positive and negative fuzzy association rules. The interestingness measure for both positive and negative fuzzy association rule is proposed, the algorithm for mining these rules is described, and an illustrative example is presented to demonstrate how the measure and the algorithm work.


2021 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Bemarisika Parfait ◽  
André Totohasina

Given a large collection of transactions containing items, a basic common association rules problem is the huge size of the extracted rule set. Pruning uninteresting and redundant association rules is a promising approach to solve this problem. In this paper, we propose a Condensed Representation for Positive and Negative Association Rules representing non-redundant rules for both exact and approximate association rules based on the sets of frequent generator itemsets, frequent closed itemsets, maximal frequent itemsets, and minimal infrequent itemsets in database B. Experiments on dense (highly-correlated) databases show a significant reduction of the size of extracted association rule set in database B.


2021 ◽  
Vol 336 ◽  
pp. 05009
Author(s):  
Junrui Yang ◽  
Lin Xu

Aiming at the shortcomings of the traditional "support-confidence" association rules mining framework and the problems of mining negative association rules, the concept of interestingness measure is introduced. Analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of some commonly used interestingness measures at present, and combined the cosine measure on the basis of the interestingness measure model based on the difference idea, and proposed a new interestingness measure model. The interestingness measure can effectively express the relationship between the antecedent and the subsequent part of the rule. According to this model, an association rules mining algorithm based on the interestingness measure fusion model is proposed to improve the accuracy of mining. Experiments show that the algorithm has better performance and can effectively help mining positive and negative association rules.


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