Get Rules for an Association Model

Select the rules to display as follows:

  1. Select the antecedents and consequents of the rules.
  2. Specify filtering criteria for the rules (minimum confidence, minimum support, and number of rules.
  3. Specify sorting for the rules.
  4. Display the rules.

Selection

You select the rules to display by specifying in antecedents and consequents for the rules. You can specify <Any> for the antecedent and consequent or you can specify specific antecedents and more consequents. The default is to specify <Any>.

If you specify exactly one attribute, you get all rules that contain that attribute. For example, if you select one attribute as an antecedent, you will get all rules where that attribute is one of the antecedents; the rules may contain other antecedents.

To specify specific antecedents or consequents, click Edit under the antecedent and/or consequent column.

Filtering

You can specify the following Filtering:

Sorting

The default sort order for rules is to first Sort By Confidence in descending order and Then By Support in descending order. You can change the sort order. and you can change the direction (ascending or descending) of the sort.

Display Rules

To fetch the rules using the filtering criteria and then display them in the specified sort order, click OK.