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What is Nearest Neighbour Searching

Chapter 29
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A computational method that searches for the nearest neighbour (case) for a given case in a data set on the basis of a distance measure. This technique is one of those simplest applied to classification.
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Variable Importance Evaluation for Machine Learning Tasks
Martti Juhola (University of Tampere, Finland) and Tapio Grönfors (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch029
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