Lectures on the Nearest Neighbor Method

• Main Authors: Biau, Gérard (Author), Devroye, Luc (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Springer Series in the Data Sciences,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Pattern recognition.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Pattern Recognition.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.

This text presents a wide-ranging and rigorous overview of nearest neighbor methods, one of the most important paradigms in machine learning. Now in one self-contained volume, this book systematically covers key statistical, probabilistic, combinatorial and geometric ideas for understanding, analyzi...