cba {arc}

CBA Classifier

Description

Learns a CBA rule set from supplied dataframe.

Usage

cba(train, classAtt, rulelearning_options = NULL, pruning_options = NULL)

Arguments

train

a data frame with data.

classAtt

the name of the class attribute.

rulelearning_options

custom options for the rule learning algorithm overriding the default values. If not specified, the the topRules function is called and defaults specified there are used
target_rule_count (int) mining stops when the resulting rule set contains this number of rules;
trim (boolean) if set to TRUE and more than target_rule_count is discovered, only first target_rule_count rules will be returned.
minsupp (float) minimum support threshold
minconf (float) minimum confidence threshold
minlen (int) minimum length of rules, minlen=1 corresponds to rule with empty antecedent and one item in consequent. In general, rules with empty antecedent are not desirable for the subsequent pruning algorithm, therefore the value of this parameter should be set at least to value 2.
maxlen (int) maximum length of rules, should be equal or higher than minlen. A higher value may decrease the number of iterations to obtain target_rule_count rules, but it also increases the risk of initial combinatorial explosion and subsequent memory crash of the apriori rule learner.
maxtime (int) maximum number of seconds it should take 'apriori' to obtain rules.
find_conf_supp_thresholds (boolean) whether to use automatic threshold detection or not.

pruning_options

custom options for the pruning algorithm overriding the default values.

Value

Object of class CBARuleModel.

Examples

 # Example using automatic threshold detection
 cba(datasets::iris, "Species", rulelearning_options = list(target_rule_count = 50000))
 # Example using manually set confidence and support thresholds
 rm <- cba(datasets::iris, "Species", rulelearning_options = list(minsupp=0.01,
   minconf=0.5, minlen=1, maxlen=5, maxtime=1000, target_rule_count=50000, trim=TRUE,
   find_conf_supp_thresholds=FALSE))
 inspect(rm@rules)