The Apriori algorithm is particularly designed for mining frequent item-sets and generating association rules which could be of interest

  • Proposed by Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant in 1994
  • The algorithm works by iteratively discovering frequent item-sets in a dataset and then generating association rules based on those frequent item-sets
  • The frequent item-set is determined by comparing the determined frequency of each item and item-set with the provided support value

Frequent item-set

A frequent item-set is a set of items that frequently appear together in the dataset. The algorithm uses a level-wise search strategy to discover these frequent item-sets and then derives association rules based on these frequent item-sets.