The K-Nearest Neighbor Classification Technique

question 30

Multiple Choice

The k-nearest neighbor classification technique

• A) identifies the k observations in the training data that are most similar to a new observation we want to classify
• B) sorts the data in an increasing order
• C) sorts the data in a decreasing order
• D) works very much like the ranking algorithm

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