Hey everyone, 

I just started learning R and statistics. I made association rules with the 
apriori algorithm in the arules package. I sorted them and pruned them. But now 
I want to validate/test them. In supervised learning they use cross validation. 
In this paper by Patrick O Perry http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3052 I read it is 
possible to use cross validation on unsupervised learning methods (such as 
arules). But since my background in R, statistics and machine learning is weak 
the paper was quite hard to get through (also I'm not in college, I just 
finished high school and am preparing to study computer sciencec). 

So my question is, how do you validate your rules? How can you use cross 
validation to do so? I have my main data set "Orders", it has 2 million 
records. I used the sample function to make a training data set and a test data 
set. But what do I do next? Are there other techniques I should know of?

If there are any specific tutorials on this subject, I would also love to learn 
from them.

Kind regards,
Ayane                                     
        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

______________________________________________
R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Reply via email to