Apriori Algorithm and Hybrid Apriori Algorithm in the Data Mining: A Comprehensive Review

Abstract

Data mining has the potential to empower healthcare organizations by allowing them to analyze various aspects of patient information and discover connections between seemingly unrelated data. By harnessing advanced data analysis techniques, healthcare providers can identify trends in patients' medical conditions and behaviours. The Apriori algorithm is used for mining frequent item sets and devising association rules from a transactional database. The parameters “support” and “confidence” are used. Support refers to items’ frequency of occurrence; confidence is a conditional probability, while Apriori-Hybrid. Apriori-Hybrid is the combination of algorithms Apriori and Apriori-TID, which can classify large itemsets and can improve the accuracy of classification and it can also shed light on the basic mechanism. In this research, a comparison was made between the two algorithms in terms of capabilities, strengths, areas of use, and suggestions about the nature of using each algorithm.