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Gul, A., Khan, Z., Perperoglou, A., Mahmoud, O. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0342-6704, Miftahuddin, M., Adler, W. and Lausen, B.
(2016)
Ensemble of subset of k-nearest neighbours models for class membership probability estimation.
In:
Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization.
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Abstract
Combining multiple classifiers can give substantial improvement in prediction performance of learning algorithms especially in the presence of non-informative features in the data sets. This technique can also be used for estimating class membership probabilities. We propose an ensemble of k-Nearest Neighbours (kNN) classifiers for class membership probability estimation in the presence of non-informative features in the data. This is done in two steps. Firstly, we select classifiers based upon their individual performance from a set of base kNN models, each generated on a bootstrap sample using a random feature set from the feature space of training data. Secondly, a step wise selection is used on the selected learners, and those models are added to the ensemble that maximize its predictive performance. We use bench mark data sets with some added non-informative features for the evaluation of our method. Experimental comparison of the proposed method with usual kNN, bagged kNN, random kNN and random forest shows that it leads to high predictive performance in terms of minimum Brier score on most of the data sets. The results are also verified by simulation studies.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2026 11:00 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2026 11:00 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/104844 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-25226-1_35 |
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