chapextendedassociationanalysis.pptVIP

(C) Vipin Kumar, Parallel Issues in Data Mining, VECPAR 2002 (C) Vipin Kumar, Parallel Issues in Data Mining, VECPAR 2002 Data MiningAssociation Rules: Advanced Concepts and Algorithms Continuous and Categorical Attributes Handling Categorical Attributes Transform categorical attribute into asymmetric binary variables Introduce a new “item” for each distinct attribute-value pair Example: replace Browser Type attribute with Browser Type = Internet Explorer Browser Type = Mozilla Browser Type = Mozilla Handling Categorical Attributes Potential Issues What if attribute has many possible valu