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Weakness of Association Rules: A Mechanism for Clustering

Weakness of Association Rules: A Mechanism for Clustering
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Author(s): Rajesh Natarajan (Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India)and B. Shekar (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India)
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 3
Source title: Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Management
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-019-6.ch109
ISBN13: 9781616921286
EISBN13: 9781466665361

Abstract

We introduce the notion of weakness of an AR. After providing the intuition, we develop a weakness-based distance-function for clustering ARs. We cluster ARs obtained from a small artificial data set through the average-linkage method. The clusters are compared with those obtained by applying a commonly used method to the same data-set.

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