The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 36, No. 5 (Oct., 2008), pp. 2135-2152 (18 pages) The kth-nearest neighbor rule is arguably the simplest and most intuitively appealing nonparametric classification ...
Nearest neighbour classification techniques, particularly the k‐nearest neighbour (kNN) algorithm, have long been valued for their simplicity and effectiveness in pattern recognition and data ...