Under Predict menu in XLMiner, perform a k-nearest neighbors prediction with all the predictors from column

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Written Assignment #2B requires hands-on practice of XLMiner, and you are expected to use XLMiner to mine the Boston Housing data in the file BostonHousing.xls posted in Written Assignment #2B entry in Blackboard

Your task is to run k-nearest neighbors algorithm in XLMiner for both prediction and classification tasks describe below, and submit your answer with your XLMiner execution result files attached in your submission. Since the k-nearest neighbor algorithm can be used for both classification and prediction, there are two menus under XLMiner, Classify and Predict. 

The file BostonHousing.xls contains information on over 500 census tracts in Boston, where for each tract 14 variable values are recorded. The last column (CAT.MEDV) was derived from MEDV, such that it obtains the value 1 if MEDV>30 and 0 otherwise. Consider the goal of predicting and classifying the median value (MEDV and CAT.MEDV) of a tract, given the information in the first 13 columns (input variables) in the column list. Partition the data into training (60%) and validation (40%) sets.  (For description of the column names in BostonHousing.xls, please make reference to Table 2.2 on page 33 of the textbook)

 

1. Under Predict menu in XLMiner, perform a k-nearest neighbors prediction with all the predictors from column A (CRIM) to column B (LSTAT) (excluding the CAT.MEDV, the CAT.MEDV column is the outcome or decision variable for classification) for both training data set and validation data set, trying values of k from 1 to 10 to predict the value MEDV. What is the best k chosen? What does it mean? Also attach the execution result file including RMSE (Root Mean Square Errors) in your submission. (10 points) (you can try run prediction with normalizing data and without normalizing data).

 

2. Under Classify menu in XLMiner,  perform k-nearest neighbors classification with  all the predictors from column A (CRIM) to column B (LSTAT) (excluding the MEDV, the MEDV column is the outcome or decision variable for prediction) for both training data set and validation data set, and find the best K for validation data set,  trying values of k from 1 to 10 to classify CAT.MEDV (make sure to normalize the data). Also attach the execution result file including confusion matrix, lift chart, and ROC chart in your submission. (10 points)

 

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