True or False: The FP-Growth function is required in RapidMiner to create association rules.

• A. Not Applicable
• B. Cannot Be Determined
• C. True
• D. False

Answer: (C)

Association rules come from frequent itemsets. FP-Growth is a fast method to mine those frequent itemsets from transactional data, producing the itemsets that will be used to form rules. In RapidMiner, the common workflow is to run FP-Growth to generate the frequent itemsets, then feed those itemsets into the operator that creates the rules (subject to minimum support and confidence). Since rules are derived from patterns that occur frequently, you need those frequent itemsets first, making FP-Growth the standard prerequisite step. There are other algorithms that can generate itemsets as well, but the typical RapidMiner approach used to produce association rules centers on FP-Growth followed by rule generation, which is why this statement is considered correct.