Weighted k-nearest neighbors regression is arguably the simplest technique for regression. The main strengths of weighted KNNR are simplicity, interpretability and ability to scale to large (but not ...

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General results are obtained for an approximation to the variance of a weighted regression estimator in which the weights are sample estimators of unknown unpatterned variances. Independent normally ...