R help - Nov 2015 - Fwd: Re: knn - random result although use.all=TRUE

Thank you very much for your prompt response. Now I see why the results
have a random part: although all units with tied distances are included
in the neighbourhood, the votes have to be broken at random.

Thank you!

Itziar Irigoien
On or., 2015.eko azaren 20a 16:40, David L Carlson
wrote:
> Changing your definition of cl to clase let me replicate the problem. If
you set a random seed just before running knn() the results are consistent so
that indicates that the function is drawing a random number at some point.
>
> You should probably contact the package maintainer, but your toy data set
is trivially simple. You have 40 total observations, but X1 has only 3 different
values and X2 has only 2 different values so there are only 6 different
combinations. The distance matrix on your training set has 435 distances, but
only 5 different values! As a result there are many, many tied values so the
algorithm probably uses a random method of selecting which 3 to use.
>
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> David L Carlson
> Department of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77840-4352