Patent ID: 7996404

Claim:
A computerized method for analyzing relationships among patterns within a data set having a set of samples and a corresponding attribute value for each attribute of each said sample, the method implemented as a set of instructions for execution by a processor, the method comprising: receiving at a computer interface at least two patterns, the computer interface coupled to the computer processor; defining a data cluster within the data set for each of said at least two patterns, each defined data cluster having samples with attribute values associated with a corresponding pattern of said at least two patterns; grouping at least some of the samples of each defined data cluster with one another to generate a resultant data cluster; calculating a variation between the attribute value of a first set of samples and the attribute value of a second set of samples within said resultant data cluster, the attribute value of the first set of samples and the second set of samples corresponding to the same attribute; and outputting the variation as data representing a measure of relevance of the first set of samples with the second set of samples.