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[Trevor Hastie]

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	Discriminant Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Classification

		Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani

We propose an adaptive nearest neighbor rule that uses local
discriminant information to estimate an effective metric for
classification.  We also propose a method for global dimension
reduction, that combines local dimension information.  In a number of
examples, the methods demonstrate the potential for substantial
improvements over nearest neighbor classification.