A note on "beyond market baskets: generalizing association rules to correlations"

  • Authors:
  • Khalil M. Ahmed;Nagwa M. El-Makky;Yousry Taha

  • Affiliations:
  • Alexandria University, Alex., Egypt;Alexandria University, Alex., Egypt;Alexandria University, Alex., Egypt

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In their paper [1], S. Brin, R. Matwani and C. Silverstien discussed measuring significance of (generalized) association rules via the support and the chi-squared test for correlation. They provided some illustrative examples and pointed that the chi-squared test needs to be agumented by a measure of interest that they also suggested.This paper presents a further elaboration and extension of their discussion. As suggested by Brin et al, the chi-squared test succeeds in measuring the cell dependencies in a 2x2 contingency table. However, it can be misleading in cases of bigger contingency tables. We will give some illustrative examples based on those presented in [1]. We will also propose a more appropriate reliability measure of association rules.