방법 비교

	연관 규칙	FP-성장 (빈발 패턴 성장)	K-means 군집화
분야	머신러닝	머신러닝	머신러닝
계열	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
기원 연도	1993	2000	1967 (formalized 1982)
창시자	Agrawal, R., Imielinski, T., & Swami, A.	Jiawei Han, Jian Pei & Yiwen Yin	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.
유형	Unsupervised pattern discovery	Frequent-itemset mining algorithm	Partitional clustering
원전	Agrawal, R., Imielinski, T., & Swami, A. (1993). Mining association rules between sets of items in large databases. Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 207–216.	Han, J., Pei, J., & Yin, Y. (2000). Mining frequent patterns without candidate generation. ACM SIGMOD Record, 29(2), 1–12.	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.
별칭	market basket analysis, association rule mining, frequent itemset mining, affinity analysis	frequent pattern growth, FP-tree mining, FP-Growth algorithm, sık örüntü büyütme	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means
관련	4	4	4
요약	Association rule learning is an unsupervised technique that discovers co-occurrence patterns — 'if X then Y' implications — within large transactional datasets. Originally formalized by Agrawal, Imielinski, and Swami (1993) for supermarket basket analysis, it is now widely applied in e-commerce recommendation, health informatics, bioinformatics, and behavioral research.	FP-Growth, introduced by Jiawei Han, Jian Pei, and Yiwen Yin in 2000, mines frequent itemsets from transaction data without generating candidate sets, the costly step that slows the classic Apriori algorithm. It compresses the database into a frequent-pattern tree (FP-tree) in two scans, then grows frequent patterns recursively from that structure, making it dramatically faster than Apriori on large, dense datasets.	K-means is a classic unsupervised partitional clustering algorithm that divides a dataset into K non-overlapping groups by iteratively assigning each observation to its nearest centroid and updating centroids as the mean of their assigned points. It is one of the most widely used exploratory tools in machine learning and data analysis.