46838-s99 ML for CF Assignment 6

due April 26th, 1999, before class

You are given the following examples for training a k-nearest neighbor classifier:

Height	Class
182	Male
167	Female
142	Male
167	Male
183	Male
175	Male
157	Female
165	Female
180	Female
147	Female
192	Male
154	Female
165	Female
182	Male
158	Female
188	Male
165	Female
152	Female
178	Male
170	Female

Now you are given the following test examples:

166cm
179cm
142cm

What class would you assign each to using:

(a) 1-nearest neighbor?
(b) 3-nearest neighbor?
(c) distance weighted nearest neighbor? (using equation 8.3 from the text-book)

Last modified: Mon Apr 19 17:07:04 EDT 1999