Using association rules without understanding their underlying causality reduces their decision value

Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA '04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 312-319

  Mazlack, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULES; CAUSALITY; CHI-SQUARED TESTING; DIRECTED METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA WAREHOUSES; DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY; ROUGH SET THEORY; STATISTICS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 21244474008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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