Association-Rule Generator
Generate implication rules from frequent itemsets and filter them by support, confidence, and lift.
Description
Derive association rules and calculate support, confidence, and lift.
Association Rule Generator: Derive association rules and calculate support, confidence, and lift.
When to use Association Rule Generator
Use this method to discover frequent item combinations and implication-style association rules in transaction-like data under explicit support and confidence thresholds.
- Transactions
- Required object input.
- Minimum support
- Required number input.
- Minimum confidence
- Required number input.
- Maximum itemset size
- Required integer input.
How Association Rule Generator works
Derive association rules and calculate support, confidence, and lift. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- Rules
- The resulting rules returned as an object.
Limitations and assumptions
- Frequent co-occurrence does not imply causation or practical importance. Results are sensitive to basket definition, duplicate handling, rare items, threshold selection, sampling, and multiple comparisons; confidence can also be misleading when consequents are common.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Review support, confidence, lift, leverage, and absolute counts together. Validate useful rules on held-out or later data and apply domain constraints before acting on them.
References
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