Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd Edition

7.7 Summary

■ The scope of frequent pattern mining research reaches far beyond the basic concepts and methods introduced in Chapter 6 for mining frequent itemsets and associations. This chapter presented a road map of the field, where topics are organized with respect to the kinds of patterns and rules that can be mined, mining methods, and applications.

■ In addition to mining for basic frequent itemsets and associations, advanced forms of patterns can be mined such as multilevel associations and multidimensional associations, quantitative association rules, rare patterns, and negative patterns. We can also mine high-dimensional patterns and compressed or approximate patterns.

■ Multilevel associations involve data at more than one abstraction ...