  So far, most of association rule minings have considered about positive
association rules based on frequent itemsets in databases[2,5-7], but they have
not considered the problem of mining negative association rules correlated with
frequent and infrequent itemsets. Negative association rule mining is much more
difficult than positive association rule mining because it needs infrequent
itemsets, and only the rare association rule mining which is a kind of negative
association rule minings has been studied. This paper presents a mathematical
model to mine positive and negative association rules precisely, for which in a
point of view that negation of a frequent itemset is an infrequent itemset, we
make clear the importance of the problem of mining negative association rules
based on certain infrequent itemsets and study on what conditions infrequent
itemsets of interest should satisfy for negative association rules.
