... return. The reasonableness of the estimated reconstruction errors is verified using the Apriori algorithm, a well-known marketing tool for identifying patterns in purchased item sets. Findings The sorted reconstruction scores are reasonably consistent with actual fraudulent/non-fraudulent cases...

... using apriori algorithm, which is the effective association rule mining algorithm. In general, the extraction of the association rules from the input database is based on confidence and support that is replaced with new terms, such as probability-based confidence and holo-entropy. Thus, in the proposed...