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12. Association Analysis

Hong Zhou1  
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, USA
 

We have learned that correlation measures the linear association strength between two numerical variables. While correlation study requires the two variables to be numeric and only measures the linear relationship, association analysis has no such restriction. Association analysis measures the strength of co-occurrence between two or more variables. It is an effective data mining technique for cross-selling, and it also has applications ...

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