Specifying Association Rules
settings or Sequence Rules settings
Mining settings
include various parameters that control the result of a mining run.
They also include the layout of the input tables.
By specifying mining settings,
you determine the layout of the input tables, control the number of
rules to be included in the result, or define the fields to be used
during the mining run. You can also use discretization of numeric
fields.
Definition of the input table layout
Typically, a training data table for Associations mining
runs or for Sequence Rules mining runs consists of one item field
or of several item fields. For Sequence Rules mining runs, there must
also be a sequence field and a group field. The sequence field contains
the transaction group IDs. The group field contains the transaction
IDs or the time stamps.
The number of association rules or sequence rules
This section describes various methods to
specify the number of association or sequence rules and define rule
properties such as support, confidence and maximum rule length.
Defining fields as active or inactive
This section describes various methods that
let you include or exclude fields in a model by declaring fields as
active or inactive.