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Correlation and

Association

D. Prem Raja
AP / IT
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Correlation
• Correlation is often used as a primary
technique to discover relationship
between two variables
Association
• Association in a data mining function
that discovers the probability of the
co-occurrence of items in a
collection.
What is Market basket
Analysis?
• Market basket Analysis may be
performed on the retail data of
customer transactions at a store.
That can be used to plan marketing
(or) advertising strategies (or) in a
design of new catalog. This helps the
retailers to plan which items to put
on sale at reduced prize.
What is Association Rule
Mining?
• It can be viewed as a two step
process
– Find all Frequent item-set
– Generate strong association reles from
the frequent item-set.
Methods to improve the efficiency of
mining
• Partitioning: Partitioning the data to
find candidate item-set
• Sampling: Sampling approach is to
pick a random sample S of the given
data D
Pruning Strategies in Data
Mining
• Item Merging – Combining the similar
kind of items in to one.
• Item Skipping – Skipping unwanted
data and keeping the wanted one.
What are constraint based
association mining?
• Knowledge based Constraint
• Data Constraint
• Dimension / Level based Constraint
• Rule Constraint

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