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 a step of Association rules mining. After applying Frequent itemset mining algorithm like Apriori, FPGrowth on data, you will get frequent itemsets. From these discovered frequent itemsets, you will generate association rules(Usually done by subset generation).