一篇写得不错的关于数据挖掘的文章Abstract：The data mining of association rules 1s an essential research aspect in the data mining fields．Association rules reflect the inner relationship of data． Discovering these associations is beneficial to the correct and appropriate decision made by decision—makers．Association rules is an important subject of data mining study．The association rules provide an effective means to found the potential link between the data， reflecting a built—in association between the data．In this paper， from the study of data mi ning technology，we make a in—depth study of the mining association rules，and on the basis，we analyzing the classic method of mining association rules-Apriori algorithm，pointing out its weaknesses，and putting tbrward a new improved algorithm—AprioriM end algorithm．