Comparative analysis of different techniques in classification based on association rules

Classification is a machine learning procedure that tags data instances into predefined class labels which are used to predict the data according to those Classes. Many classification algorithms in data mining have been stated, such as: C4.5, Apriori, Genetic algorithm, and Fuzzy set approaches which mainly uses heuristic or greedy search to get frequent sets in data for classification, resulting in high error ratio. Recently, a new method for classification has been proposed, called the Classification Using Association also known as associative classification. The main purpose for this is to mine class-association rules. Associative Classification has more advantages than the heuristic and greedy method, as it easily removes noise and higher accuracy is obtained. It additionally generates a rule set, that are more complete than traditional classification methods. This paper presents a meticulous survey on various Associative classification techniques. Moreover, a comparative analysis of accuracy and efficiency of those methods is presented.