An improved organization method for association rules and a basis for comparison of methods

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2010
Jabarnejad, Masood
In large data, set of mined association rules are typically large in number and hard to interpret. Some grouping and pruning methods have been developed to make rules more understandable. In this study, one of these methods is modified to be more effective and more efficient in applications including low thresholds for support or confidence, such as association analysis of product/process quality improvement. Results of experiments on benchmark datasets show that the proposed method groups and prunes more rules. In the literature, many rule reduction methods, including grouping and pruning methods, have been proposed for different applications. The variety in methods makes it hard to select the right method for applications such those of quality improvement. In this study a novel performance comparison basis is introduced to address this problem. It is applied here to compare the improved method to the original one. The introduced basis is tailored for quality data, but is flexible and can be changed to be applicable in other application domains.

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M. Jabarnejad, “An improved organization method for association rules and a basis for comparison of methods,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.