• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.939-948
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• 2012

The most widely used data mining technique is to explore association rules. This technique has been used to find the relationship between items in a massive database based on the interestingness measures such as support, confidence, lift, etc. Association rules are frequently used by retail stores to assist in marketing, advertising, floor placement, and inventory control.In general, association rule technique generates the rule, 'If A, then B.', whereas negative association rule technique generates the rule, 'If A, then not B.', or 'If not A, then B.'. We can determine whether we promote other products in addition to promote its products only if we add negative association rules to existing association rules. In this paper, we proposed the negatively attributable and pure confidence to overcome the problems faced by negative association rule technique, and then we checked three conditions for interestingness measure. The comparative studies with negative confidence, negatively pure confidence, and negatively attributable and pure confidence are shown by numerical examples. The results show that the negatively attributable and pure confidence is better than negative confidence and negatively pure confidence.