A nearest neighbour rule with class membership (NNRC) for modelling problems

The nearest neighbour rule (NNR) has been used widely to determine a bound on the performance of classifiers. It has been shown that the error rate of the nearest neighbour classifier bounds the optimal Bayes error rate by a factor of at most two. We present NNRC, a nearest neighbour rule with class membership, to model the multiple fault conditions on a test rig. The NNR rule can be used only for classification problems. Hence we extend the NNR with NNRC to allow the use of continuous class labels as well.