Package smile.association

Class ARM

java.lang.Object
smile.association.ARM
All Implemented Interfaces:
Iterable<AssociationRule>
public class ARM extends Object implements Iterable<AssociationRule>
Association Rule Mining. Let I = {i1, i2,..., in} be a set of n binary attributes called items. Let D = {t1, t2,..., tm} be a set of transactions called the database. Each transaction in D has a unique transaction ID and contains a subset of the items in I. An association rule is defined as an implication of the form X ⇒ Y where X, Y ⊆ I and X ∩ Y = Ø. The item sets X and Y are called antecedent (left-hand-side or LHS) and consequent (right-hand-side or RHS) of the rule, respectively. The support supp(X) of an item set X is defined as the proportion of transactions in the database which contain the item set. Note that the support of an association rule X ⇒ Y is supp(X ∪ Y). The confidence of a rule is defined conf(X ⇒ Y) = supp(X ∪ Y) / supp(X). Confidence can be interpreted as an estimate of the probability P(Y | X), the probability of finding the RHS of the rule in transactions under the condition that these transactions also contain the LHS. Association rules are usually required to satisfy a user-specified minimum support and a user-specified minimum confidence at the same time.