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Linear Discriminant Analysis

Linear Discriminant Analysis is a supervised method for dimensionality reduction and classification, introduced by Ronald A. Fisher in 1936, that finds linear combinations of features which maximally separate predefined classes while preserving as much class-discriminatory information as possible. It simultaneously serves as a feature-projection technique and a probabilistic classifier, making it one of the foundational methods in pattern recognition and statistical learning.

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Linear Discriminant Analysis (Fisher's LDA)
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / machine-learning
  • 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
  • Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., & Friedman, J. (2009). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (2nd ed., Ch. 4). Springer. · ISBN 978-0-387-84857-0
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See alsoLogistic Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainNaive Bayesmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyQuadratic Discriminant Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainRandom Forestmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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