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Discriminant Analysis

Discriminant analysis finds linear combinations of predictor variables that best separate two or more known groups. It is used both to understand which predictors distinguish the groups and to classify new observations into those groups with minimum error.

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Linear Discriminant Analysis
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / statistics
  • Fisher, R. A. (1936). The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Annals of Eugenics, 7(2), 179–188. · DOI 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1936.tb02137.x
  • Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J. & Anderson, R. E. (2019). Multivariate Data Analysis (8th ed.). Cengage Learning. · ISBN 978-1473756540
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Same method familyCanonical Correlation Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketCluster Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyConfirmatory factor analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoLogistic Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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