Profit estimation error analysis in recommender systems based on association rules

It is a challenge to estimate expected benefits from recommender systems based on association rule mining. This paper aims to address this challenge and presents a study of buying preferences of a sample of retail customers. It reveals a monotonic, non-linear relationship between the expected profits (as a function of information loss) and minimum support threshold levels, when considering transactions for a recommender system based on association rules. This finding is significant for recommender systems that utilize potential profits as a decision-making criterion.

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