Definition: K-Nearest neighbor imputation

Category: Memobust Glossary

The imputed value is an average of the closest k donors chosen in such a way that some measure of distance between the donors and the recipient is minimized. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/memobust-glossary-pdf-file_en
Source:
Eurostat, "Memobust Glossary" (part of the Memobust Handbook on Methodology of Modern Business Statistics), ESSnet "Memobust", March 2014
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