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The Nearest Neighbour rule is a distribution-free classification method. In the literature it has been shown, however, that the performance of the method improves if complex, often locally defined metrics are chosen. In this paper we demonstrate that in many real world discrimination problems comparable or even better classification results can be obtained with a simple global metric based on the...