medium · FRM Part 1 Foundations of Risk Management

A k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classifier is used to predict corporate defaults.

As the parameter k increases, how do the bias and variance of the model typically change?

  1. Bias increases and variance decreases.
  2. Both bias and variance decrease, leading to an optimal model.
  3. Both bias and variance increase.
  4. Bias decreases and variance increases.

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