Research Article
Analysis of Acupoints Combination for Cancer-Related Anorexia Based on Association Rule Mining
Table 1
Top 10 Apriori algorithm-based association rules of acupoints.
| No. | Association rules | Support | Confidence | Expected confidence | Lift |
| 1 | {Guanyuan (RN4)} | ≥ | {Zhongwan (RN12)} | 0.364 | 0.923 | 0.67 | 1.385 | 2 | {Neiguan (PC6)} | ≥ | {Zusanli (ST36)} | 0.333 | 0.846 | 0.72 | 1.163 | 3 | {Guanyuan (RN4)} | ≥ | {Sanyinjiao (SP6)} | 0.333 | 0.846 | 0.39 | 1.995 | 4 | {Sanyinjiao (SP6)} | ≥ | {Guanyuan (RN4)} | 0.333 | 0.786 | 0.39 | 1.995 | 5 | {Sanyinjiao (SP6)} | ≥ | {Zhongwan (RN12)} | 0.333 | 0.786 | 0.67 | 1.179 | 6 | {Guanyuan (RN4), Sanyinjiao (SP6)} | ≥ | {Zhongwan (RN12)} | 0.303 | 0.909 | 0.67 | 1.364 | 7 | {Guanyuan (RN4), Zhongwan (RN12)} | ≥ | {Sanyinjiao (SP6)} | 0.303 | 0.833 | 0.39 | 1.964 | 8 | {Sanyinjiao (SP6), Zhongwan (RN12)} | ≥ | {Guanyuan (RN4)} | 0.303 | 0.909 | 0.39 | 2.308 | 9 | {Shenmen (HT7)} | ≥ | {Zhongwan (RN12)} | 0.273 | 1.000 | 0.67 | 1.500 | 10 | {Baihui (DU20)} | ≥ | {Zhongwan (RN12)} | 0.273 | 1.000 | 0.67 | 1.500 |
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