"jason sirota" <jason@hob.com> wrote in message
news:08b601c3ad3a$feba5a80$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks to Peter Kim's detailed instructions, I ran the a
> simple artists to customers mine and was successful in
> retrieving the data, but I am having trouble reading the
> results from Analysis Server.
>
> It shows a number of colored boxes connected by
> missing/exists lines. Here is my question:
>
> Let's say we look at the tree for Product A. There are 2
> branches for Product A:
>
> Path 1: A exists, B exists, D exists
> Path 2: A exists, B missing, D exists
>
> I realize that Path A is the probability that A,B, and D
> exist together. I also understand that Path 2 is the
> probability that A and D exists but B is missing.
>
> What I want to determine is what is the probability that
> A and D exist regardless of whether B exists.
>
> Do I have to add the two together? Is there anyway to
> read directly the correlation between A and D?
>
> Thanks!
> Jason
>
>

"jason sirota" <jason@hob.com> wrote in message
news:08b601c3ad3a$feba5a80$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks to Peter Kim's detailed instructions, I ran the a
> simple artists to customers mine and was successful in
> retrieving the data, but I am having trouble reading the
> results from Analysis Server.
>
> It shows a number of colored boxes connected by
> missing/exists lines. Here is my question:
>
> Let's say we look at the tree for Product A. There are 2
> branches for Product A:
>
> Path 1: A exists, B exists, D exists
> Path 2: A exists, B missing, D exists
>
> I realize that Path A is the probability that A,B, and D
> exist together. I also understand that Path 2 is the
> probability that A and D exists but B is missing.
>
> What I want to determine is what is the probability that
> A and D exist regardless of whether B exists.
>
> Do I have to add the two together? Is there anyway to
> read directly the correlation between A and D?
>
> Thanks!
> Jason
>
>