摘要： 关联规则的研究主要集中在发现高效的算法，而该文基于形式概念分析讨论了多值属性关联规则发现的框架，指出最大频繁项目集由最大频繁闭合项目集唯一确定。

关键词: 数据挖掘, 多值属性关联规则, 形式概念分析

Abstract: The research on association rules is mainly focused on developing efficient algorithms. We present a new framework of mining quantitative association rules hased on formal concept analysis, and show that the closed itcmsets uniquely determine the set of all frequent itemsets.