Discovery of Association Rules between TCM Properties in Crude Drug Pairs by Mining between Datasets and Probability Test
Tcm Formulae · 2010
The TCM Crude Drug Pair is an important link node between TCM drugs and formulae.In the traditional TCM theory,there are many descriptions in multi-aspects.However,they seem still scattered compared with formulae theories.In this work,the association rule mining method was applied to reveal the associations between the structures of the crude drug pairs.The standard and enhanced Apriori algorithms were applied and run on the crude drug pair database including 625 drug pairs,347 drugs and 49 properties.The results from the two algorithms were compared and analyzed.The new enhanced Apriori algorithm was found to be more suitable for the association rule discovery between drugs in the drug pair or formulae.