Optimizing Association and Replacement Rules

When you have created association or replacement rules, you may want to analyze these rules, using filtering or sorting operations, computing statistics or creating plots.

For datasets these operations can be performed in the Data Manager, while for association and replacement rules you can use the Association Manager.

This task analyzes association and replacement rules in almost exactly the same way as the Data Manager analyzes datasets.

Association and replacement rules have a similar tabular structure to datasets:

Association rules are produced as an output of the Hierarchical Basket Analysis task
Replacement rules are the output of the Assortment Optimizer task.

Prerequisites

You must have produced rules in your process via one of the following tasks:

Additional tabs

The following additional tabs are provided:

Documentation tab where you can document your task.
History tab, which tracks all the operations that have been performed in the Association Manager task, and behaves in the same way as the Data Manager History tab, with icons for the main operations:
- Minus, for the deletion of rules or conditions
- Plus, for the creation of new rules or conditions
- Question mark, for query operations

Procedure

For a detailed description on how to sort and filter rules, create plots and calculate statistics, and perform other such operations, see the Overview of Data Exploration in the Data Manager.