Abstract:

Data analysis plays an important role in the present time to understand the patterns by way of exploring it in meaningful ways. Market—basket is one of these methods thickly used to find frequently occurring items in a transactional database and many researchers use the Apriori algorithm for this purpose. This paper presents the application of Market Basket Analysis to the healthcare of learners of schools of rural South Kashmir. This work tries to find frequent infections that occur together in such schools by using the Apriori algorithm. This could help the stakeholders of such institutions to be more cautious about the frequently occurring diseases and take all possible precautionary measures to safeguard the health of its learners so that regular presence of these students is ensured. In addition, it could also help the doctors reach to the accurate diagnosis which would help in speedy recovery of ailing student/s.