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Nearest Neighbors for Classifying New Medicines (2 New and 25 Old Opioids)

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Nearest neighbor methodology has a long history, and has, initially, been used for data imputation in demographic data files. This chapter is to assess whether it can also been used for classifying new medicines.

This chapter was previously published in “Machine learning in medicine-cookbook 2” as Chap.1, Springer Heidelberg Germany. 2014.

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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H. (2020). Nearest Neighbors for Classifying New Medicines (2 New and 25 Old Opioids). In: Machine Learning in Medicine – A Complete Overview. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33970-8_4

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