Thanks again my friend. An expert I've consulted with offered me to check into collaborative filtering. The problem with that approach is that it would provide items which would be recommended to add to the new group (which might be enough), but won't provide to coefficients to quantify the relevance of each item. What is your take on that?
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Hi Philippe, Thanks for the quick answer, however - I still have a little trouble with something. Probably the example I gave wasn't the best one; let's say that the new group was {1, 5} - using Apriori there will not be confidence for any of the other values (2, 3, 4) since 5 is introduced in the new group (which could happen all the time in my dataset). However, even in this scenario I w
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Hi Everyone, New to the forum, glad to be here. Have this question that I could use some help with. Let's say we have a list of lists of objects, which are selected from a predetermined set (we can also look at each list of objects as a transaction, like they have in the Apriori algorithm). Each object can only appear in each list once. What needs to be done, is to create a coefficient
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