Nearest Neighbor Rules for Statistical Classification Based on Ranks.

Abstract

Some rank-based rules for classifying an observation into one of two populations, from which training samples are available, are suggested. The limiting values of their probabilities of misclassification are derived as the sizes of the training samples tend to infinity. The nearest neighbor idea is used in terms of ranks and two-sided neighbors to define the rank nearest neighbor rule. A multi-stage version is also suggested (in case of ties) and studied. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 1977
Accession Number
ADA049306

Entities

People

  • Hsien Elsa Lin
  • Somesh Das Gupta

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

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  • Air Force
  • Aviation Medicine
  • Classification
  • Convergence
  • Counting Methods
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Minnesota
  • New York
  • Observation
  • Probability
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Statistics
  • Training
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Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Regression Analysis.
  • Statistical inference.