What's the difference among Apriori - FP Growth - FP max

[Dimitris Goudis]

Hi everyone,

I am new in Market Basket Analysis using the mlxtend.frequent patterns and I would like to ask what is the difference in results in the use of Apriori vs fp growth vs fp max. 

Thanks in advance. 

Yours sincerely, 

Dimitris Goudis 

[Sebastian Raschka]

Hi Dimitris,

Apriori and FP-Growth give the same results, it's just a different underlying algorithm. Usually FP-Growth is faster. FP-Max is a special case of FP-Growth that only yields maximal itemsets, so it's a subset of the FP-Growth results.

Best,

Sebastian