The invention provides an association
rule mining method for
privacy protection under a distributed environment. The association
rule mining method is used to carry out global mining on multiple data and comprises the steps of: structuring a random disturbance matrix of item sets, carrying out disturbance transformation on data, making statistics on the summation of supporting number matrixes after disturbance, restructuring data distribution, precisely calculating the global support degree of the item sets in a space after
pruning, and the like. According to the method disclosed by the invention, by means of structuring the random disturbance matrix to disturb a plurality of attributes at the same time and taking the correlation among the attributes into consideration in a disturbance process, the recover precision is effectively improved; after the supporting number of the item sets is evaluated by using a disturbance method, the final global frequent item set is determined by secure multi-party computation after
pruning is carried out based on minimum support degree, thus, the communication traffic is effectively reduced, the mining efficiency is improved, a better compromise between the mining efficiency and the mining precision can be acquired, and the association
rule mining method has a wider application range.