NDLI: Efficient Discovery of the Top-K Optimal Dependency Rules with Fisher's Exact Test of Significance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hamalainen, W.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Statistical dependency analysis is the basis of all empirical science. A commonly occurring problem is to find the most significant dependency rules, which describe either positive or negative dependencies between categorical attributes. For example, in medical science one is interested in genetic factors, which can either predispose or prevent diseases. The requirement of statistical significance is essential, because the discoveries should hold also in the future data. Typically, the significance is estimated either by Fisher's exact test or the $\chi^2$-measure. The problem is computationally very difficult, because the number of all possible dependency rules increases exponentially with the number of attributes. As a solution, different kinds of restrictions and heuristics have been applied, but a general, scalable search method has been missing. In this paper, we introduce an efficient algorithm for searching for the top-K globally optimal dependency rules using Fisher's exact test as a measure function. The rules can express either positive or negative dependencies between a set of positive attributes and a single consequent attribute. The algorithm is based on an application of the branch-and-bound search strategy, supplemented by several pruning properties. Especially, we prove a new lower-bound for the Fisher's p, and introduce a new effective pruning principle. The general search algorithm is applicable to other goodness measures, like the $\chi^2$-measure, as well. According to our experiments on classical benchmark data, the algorithm is well scalable and can efficiently handle even dense and high dimensional data sets. In addition, the quality of rules is significantly better than with the $\chi^2$-measure using the same search algorithm.
Starting Page	196
Ending Page	205
File Size	330342
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424491315
ISSN	15504786
DOI	10.1109/ICDM.2010.143
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-12-13
Publisher Place	Australia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Frequency measurement Search problems Diseases Redundancy Correlation Length measurement Measurement uncertainty rule discovery dependency rule negative rule statistical significance Fisher's exact test
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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