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Numeric association rules
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Quantitative association rules refer to a special type of association rules in the form of X → Y, with X and Y consisting of a set of numerical and/or categorical attributes. Different from general association rules where both the left-hand and the right-hand sides of the rule should be categorical (nominal or discrete) attributes, at least one attribute of the quantitative association rule (left or right) must involve a numerical attribute. Examples of this type of association rule can be categorized into the following two classes, depending on whether the rules are measured by the frequency of the supporting data records or by some distributional features of some numerical attributes.
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Frequent Rules: Out of all applicants whose age is between 30 and 39 and marriage status is “yes,” (→) 95% of them have two cars, and 10% applicants in the database satisfy this rule.
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Distributional Rules: If the patient is non-smoker and wine-drinker...
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Zhu, X. (2018). Quantitative Association Rules. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_291
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