DM: Market Basket Analysis: request for references, algorithms & softwar

[ragrawal]

Greetings!

You may want to check out the technical publications available
from the website of the IBM Quest data mining research project at:

                       http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/quest

If you are looking for a commercial product, check out
IBM Intelligent Miner.
Regards,

Rakesh Agrawal
Manager, Data Mining & Decision Support Technologies
Member, IBM Academy of Technology
IBM Almaden Research Center, B1-424
650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, U.S.A.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/ragrawal
---------------------- Forwarded by Rakesh Agrawal/Almaden/IBM on 
03/23/98
07:46 PM ---------------------------


"Van den Poel, Dirk" <Dirk.VandenPoel@econ.kuleuven.ac.be> on 03/23/98
02:32:22 AM

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Subject:  DM: Market Basket Analysis: request for references, 
algorithms &
      soft     ware





Dear readers,
I am looking for techniques to perform a market basket analysis. This
problem involves the identification of what products are purchased
together by consumers. In essence it is an association problem. Can
anyone point to a technical discussion of the algorithms (references)
used to perform such an analysis?
Currently, I only found this functionality in SAS Enterprise miner. 
But
since our access to this software is still limited, I would like to 
ask
whether anyone knows of other implementations (maybe even
free/shareware)?
Thank you very much for any related feedback,
Dirk Van den Poel
K.U.Leuven / Department of Applied Economics
Naamsestraat  69
B-3000  Leuven
Belgium
Email: dirk.vandenpoel@econ.kuleuven.ac.be