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Bias and variance of nearest neighbours · Part 1 of 3
Data follow with independent noise of variance 4. A -nearest-neighbour regressor predicts at a point by averaging the values of its nearest training points.
If the neighbours all have true values equal to , what is the variance of the prediction?
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