• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.601-609
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• 2014

The most widely used data mining technique for big data analysis is to generate meaningful association rules. This method has been used to find the relationship between set of items based on the association criteria such as support, confidence, lift, etc. Among them, confidence is the most frequently used, but it has the drawback that we can not know the direction of association by it. The attributably pure confidence was developed to compensate for this drawback, but the value was changed by the position of two item sets. In this paper, we propose four symmetrically and attributably pure confidence measures to compensate the shortcomings of confidence and the attributably pure confidence. And then we prove three conditions of interestingness measure by Piatetsky-Shapiro, and comparative studies with confidence, attributably pure confidence, and four symmetrically and attributably pure confidence measures are shown by numerical examples. The results show that the symmetrically and attributably pure confidence measures are better than confidence and the attributably pure confidence. Also the measure NSAPis found to be the best among these four symmetrically and attributably pure confidence measures.