Directional (version 6.8)

k-NN algorithm using the arc cosinus distance: k-NN algorithm using the arc cosinus distance

Description

It classifies new observations to some known groups via the k-NN algorithm.

Usage

dirknn(xnew, ina, x, k = 5, mesos = TRUE, parallel = FALSE, rann = FALSE)

Value

A vector including:

g

A matrix with the predicted group(s). It has as many columns as the values of k.

Arguments

xnew

The new data whose membership is to be predicted, a numeric matrix with unit vectors.

ina

A variable indicating the groups of the data x.

x

The data, a numeric matrix with unit vectors.

k

The number of nearest neighbours, set to 5 by default. It can also be a vector with many values.

mesos

A boolean variable used only in the case of the non standard algorithm (type="NS"). Should the average of the distances be calculated (TRUE) or not (FALSE)? If it is FALSE, the harmonic mean is calculated.

parallel

If you want the standard -NN algorithm to take place in parallel set this equal to TRUE.

rann

If you have large scale datasets and want a faster k-NN search, you can use kd-trees implemented in the R package "RANN". In this case you must set this argument equal to TRUE.

Author

Michail Tsagris.

R implementation and documentation: Michail Tsagris .

Details

The standard algorithm is to keep the k nearest observations and see the groups of these observations. The new observation is allocated to the most frequent seen group. The non standard algorithm is to calculate the classical mean or the harmonic mean of the k nearest observations for each group. The new observation is allocated to the group with the smallest mean distance.

References

Tsagris M. and Alenazi A. (2019). Comparison of discriminant analysis methods on the sphere. Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, 5(4), 467--491.

See Also

dirknn.tune, dirda, vm.nb

Examples

k <- runif(4, 4, 20)
prob <- c(0.2, 0.4, 0.3, 0.1)
mu <- matrix(rnorm(16), ncol = 4)
mu <- mu / sqrt( rowSums(mu^2) )
da <- rmixvmf(200, prob, mu, k)
nu <- sample(1:200, 180)
x <- da$x[nu, ]
ina <- da$id[nu]
xx <- da$x[-nu, ]
id <- da$id[-nu]
a1 <- dirknn(xx, ina, x, k = 5, mesos = TRUE)
a2 <- dirknn(xx, ina, x, k = 5, mesos = FALSE)
table(id, a1)
table(id, a2)