predict.knn3 {caret}R Documentation

Predictions from k-Nearest Neighbors

Description

Predict the class of a new observation based on k-NN.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'knn3':
predict(object, newdata, type=c("prob", "class"), ...)

Arguments

object object of class knn3.
newdata a data frame of new observations.
type return either the predicted class or the the proportion of the votes for the winning class.
... additional arguments.

Details

This function is a method for the generic function predict for class knn3. For the details see knn3. This is essentially a copy of predict.ipredknn.

Value

Either the predicted class or the the proportion of the votes for each class.

Author(s)

predict.ipredknn by Torsten.Hothorn <Torsten.Hothorn@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de>


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