what is the difference between Association rule mining & frequent itemset mining

Question

i am new to data mining and confuse about Association rules and frequent item mining. for me i think both are same but i need views from experts on this forum

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Answer 1

Frequent itemset mining is the first step of Association rule mining. Once you have generated all the frequent itemsets, you proceed by iterating over them, one by one, enumerating through all the possible association rules, calculate their confidence, finally, if the confidence is > minConfidence, you output that rule.