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[MINI] k-Nearest Neighbors
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Jul 24, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
This episode explores the k-nearest neighbors algorithm which is an unsupervised, non-parametric method that can be used for both classification and regression. The basica concept is that it leverages some distance function on your dataset to find the $k$ closests other observations of the dataset and averaging them to impute an unknown value or unlabelled datapoint.
Released:
Jul 24, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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