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ANNALS OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AME PUBL CO
DOI: 10.21037/atm.2016.03.37
Keywords
Machine learning; R; k-nearest neighbors (kNN); class; average accuracy; kappa
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Machine learning techniques have been widely used in many scientific fields, but its use in medical literature is limited partly because of technical difficulties. k-nearest neighbors (kNN) is a simple method of machine learning. The article introduces some basic ideas underlying the kNN algorithm, and then focuses on how to perform kNN modeling with R. The dataset should be prepared before running the knn() function in R. After prediction of outcome with kNN algorithm, the diagnostic performance of the model should be checked. Average accuracy is the mostly widely used statistic to reflect the kNN algorithm. Factors such as k value, distance calculation and choice of appropriate predictors all have significant impact on the model performance.
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