Week 5: Sep 23 – Sep 27
Weekly Objectives
- Theoretical Understanding of bias-variance trade-off
- Understand the KNN algorithm
- The effect of local averaging
- The effect of \(k\) on the
bias-variance trade-off
- Tune \(k\) using the
caret
package
- Various distance measures
- Computational issue
- Curse of dimensionality
- high-dimensional issue of local averaging methods
- Use simulation studies to understand the problem
- Classification
- Evaluate a classification model
Lecture Notes and R Examples
Data
Additional Readings
Homework