kNN tricks & tips I: weighting donors

A variation of kNN imputation that is frequently applied uses the so-called distance-weighted aggregation. What this means is that when we aggregate the values from the neighbors to obtain a replacement for a missing value, we do so using the weighted mean and the weights are inverted distances from each neighbor. As a result, closer neighbors have more impact on the imputed value.

In this exercise, you will apply the distance-weighted aggregation while imputing the tao data. This will only require passing two additional arguments to the kNN() function. Let's try it out!

Load the VIM package.
Impute humidity with kNN using distance-weighted mean for aggregating neighbors; you will need to specify the numFun and weightDist arguments.
The margin plot to view the results has been already coded for you.

Exercise

kNN tricks & tips I: weighting donors

Instructions