The Institute of Statistical Education at Statistics.com offers online courses in statistics and analytics and is seeking information that will help in packaging and sequencing courses. Consider the data in the file Courstopics.csv. These data are for purchases of online statistics courses at Statistics.com. Each row represents the courses attended by a single customer.

1. a. The firm wishes to assess alternative sequencings and bundling of courses. Use association rules to analyze these data and interpret several of the resulting rules (i.e., as many as make sense to you).
2. b. The firm now wants to provide a course recommendation to a student who purchased the Regression and Forecast courses. Apply user-based collaborative filtering to the data. All recommendations will be 1. Explain why this happens.