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M07.3 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Predict from similar stored examples

Estate agents price an apartment from similar ones nearby. Machines can too, but change the units, and the "similar" apartments change with them.

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Lesson overview

Estate agents price an apartment from similar ones nearby. Machines can too, but change the units, and the "similar" apartments change with them.

What you’ll explore

  • Nearest-neighbor methods use a distance and neighborhood rule; feature scaling, dimensionality, ties, and reference-data quality shape their predictions.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning — authors’ materialsCover & Hart (1967), Nearest neighbor pattern classification
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