Association rules and Sequence rules

With the Associations mining function and the Sequence Rule mining function, you can specify optional field-related information in a logical data specification.

The following table shows the field-related information that you can specify for Association rules and Sequence rules. It also shows the methods that you can use to specify this information.

Table 1. Field-related information for Association rules and Sequence rules
Field-related information	Method
Name mappings for categorical fields	`DM_setFldNmp`
Taxonomies for categorical fields	`DM_setFldTax`
Lower and upper bounds for numerical fields	`DM_setFldOutlLim`
Weights	`DM_setFldWeight`

The name mapping or the taxonomy of a field that is defined as a group field is not considered during the training run.