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APrior Algorithm

The document describes the steps of the Apriori algorithm for finding frequent itemsets and generating association rules from transactional data. It starts with generating candidate itemsets of length 1 (C1) and finding the frequent itemsets (L1). It then iteratively generates candidate itemsets of longer length (C2, C3) and finds the frequent itemsets (L2, L3). Finally, it generates association rules from the frequent itemsets and calculates their support and confidence.

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APrior Algorithm

The document describes the steps of the Apriori algorithm for finding frequent itemsets and generating association rules from transactional data. It starts with generating candidate itemsets of length 1 (C1) and finding the frequent itemsets (L1). It then iteratively generates candidate itemsets of longer length (C2, C3) and finds the frequent itemsets (L2, L3). Finally, it generates association rules from the frequent itemsets and calculates their support and confidence.

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Apriori Algorithm

The Apriori algorithm uses frequent itemsets to generate association


rules, and it is designed to work on the databases that contain
transactions. With the help of these association rule, it determines how
strongly or how weakly two objects are connected. This algorithm uses
a breadth-first search and Hash Tree to calculate the itemset
associations efficiently. It is the iterative process for finding the frequent
item sets from the large dataset.
Frequent itemsets are those items whose support is greater than the
threshold value or user-specified minimum support. It means if A & B are
the frequent itemsets together, then individually A and B should also be
the frequent itemset.
Suppose there are the two transactions:
A= {1,2,3,4,5}, and B= {2,3,7},
in these two transactions, 2 and 3 are the frequent itemsets.
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Below are the steps for the apriori algorithm:

Step-1: Determine the support of itemsets in the transactional database,


and select the minimum support and confidence.

Step-2: Take all supports in the transaction with higher support value
than the minimum or selected support value.

Step-3: Find all the rules of these subsets that have higher confidence
value than the threshold or minimum confidence.

Step-4: Sort the rules as the decreasing order of lift.


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Example: Suppose we have the following dataset that has various
transactions, and from this dataset, we need to find the frequent item sets
and generate the association rules using the Apriori algorithm:
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Step-1: Calculating C1 and L1:
•In the first step, we will create a table that contains support count (The
frequency of each itemset individually in the dataset) of each itemset in
the given dataset. This table is called the Candidate set or C1.
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Now, we will take out all the itemsets that have the greater support count
that the Minimum Support (2). It will give us the table for the frequent
itemset L1.
Since all the itemsets have greater or equal support count than the
minimum support, except the E, so E itemset will be removed.
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Step-2: Candidate Generation C2, and L2:
•In this step, we will generate C2 with the help of L1. In C2, we will
create the pair of the itemsets of L1 in the form of subsets.
•After creating the subsets, we will again find the support count from the
main transaction table of datasets, i.e., how many times these pairs have
occurred together in the given dataset. So, we will get the below table for
C2:
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Again, we need to compare the C2 Support count with the minimum
support count, and after comparing, the itemset with less support
count will be eliminated from the table C2. It will give us the below
table for L2
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Step-3: Candidate generation C3, and L3:
•For C3, we will repeat the same two processes, but now we will form the
C3 table with subsets of three itemsets together, and will calculate the
support count from the dataset. It will give the below table:

•Now we will create the L3 table. As we can see from the above C3 table, there is only one
combination of itemset that has support count equal to the minimum support count. So, the
L3 will have only one combination, i.e., {A, B, C}.
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Step-4: Finding the association rules for the subsets:
To generate the association rules, first, we will create a new table with
the possible rules from the occurred combination {A, B.C}. For all the
rules, we will calculate the Confidence using formula
sup( A ^B)/A.
After calculating the confidence value for all rules, we will exclude the
rules that have less confidence than the minimum threshold(50%).
Consider the below table:
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Rules Support Confidence

A ^B → C 2 Sup{(A ^B) ^C}/sup(A ^B)=


2/4=0.5=50%

B^C → A 2 Sup{(B^C) ^A}/sup(B ^C)=


2/4=0.5=50%

A^C → B 2 Sup{(A ^C) ^B}/sup(A ^C)=


2/4=0.5=50%

C→ A ^B 2 Sup{(C^( A ^B)}/sup(C)= 2/5=0.4=40%

A→ B^C 2 Sup{(A^( B ^C)}/sup(A)=


2/6=0.33=33.33%

B→ B^C 2 Sup{(B^( B ^C)}/sup(B)= 2/7=0.28=28%


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Advantages of Apriori Algorithm
•This is easy to understand algorithm
•The join and prune steps of the algorithm can be easily implemented on
large datasets.

Disadvantages of Apriori Algorithm


•The apriori algorithm works slow compared to other algorithms.
•The overall performance can be reduced as it scans the database for
multiple times.
•The time complexity and space complexity of the apriori algorithm is
O(2D), which is very high. Here D represents the horizontal width present
in the database.

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