15.2. Past Work
The ideas illustrated in this chapter originate from past work on the integration of database technology and data-mining tools, and from the notion of an inductive database. In order to make clear our proposal, it is necessary to report this past work, showing the background that inspired our present work. In particular, we will consider two main data-mining problems: the association rule extraction problem and the classification problem.
15.2.1. Extracting and Evaluating Association Rules
We describe here a classical market basket analysis problem that will serve as a running example throughout the chapter to illustrate association rule mining problems.
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