I've heard about the Apriori algorithm several times before but never got the time or the opportunity to dig into it, can anyone explain to me in a simple way the workings of this algorithm? Also, a basic example would make it a lot easier for me to understand.
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Um... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apriori_algorithm
Wikipedia has a pretty simple explanation, and a nice example. It does require some basic knowledge of graph theory and basic algorithms on said graphs.
Yuval A
2009-08-08 08:49:47
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Well, I would assume you've read the wikipedia entry but you said "a basic example would make it a lot easier for me to understand". Wikipedia has just that so I'll assume you haven't read it and suggest that you do.
Read the wikipedia article.
Spencer Ruport
2009-08-08 08:50:55
Thank you, actually I've read the wiki page before but it had really poor content at that time now it even contains a real world example! =)
Alix Axel
2009-08-08 09:42:15
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See Top 10 algorithms in data mining (free access) or The Top Ten Algorithms in Data Mining. The latter gives a detailed description of the algorithm, together with details on how to get optimized implementations.
lmsasu
2010-02-05 17:58:30