Choosing the Mining Technique
The third and last step in the parameter setting before starting the computation consists in choosing the mining technique.
Three methods are proposed:
- Apriori: this is the standard technique for mining association rules on categorical attributes only,
- Genetic Algorithm: use this method when you have numerical attributes (of course, categorical attributes are not excluded),
- Simulated annealing: an alternative technique to Genetic Algorithm to handle numerical and categorical attributes, but note that this implementation is still experimental,
Moreover,
- Load a rule file: a technique allowing to load a set of pre-computed rules generated with QuantMiner instead of starting over the computation.