Association Rules
Mining association rules searches for interesting
relationships among items in a given dataset [1]. It
allows finding rules of the form If antecedent then
(likely) consequent where antecedent and consequent
are itemsets [7]. Itemsets are sets of one or more items.
In our dataset an example of item is: attendance =
good. Because, we are looking for items that
characterize the final grade of students, consequent has