השוואת שיטות

	ניתוח דיסקרימיננטי ליניארי (LDA	רגרסיה לוגיסטית
תחום	סטטיסטיקה	סטטיסטיקה למחקר
משפחה	Hypothesis test	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1936	1958
הוגה השיטה	Ronald A. Fisher	David Roxbee Cox
סוג	Parametric linear classifier / dimensionality reduction	Method
מקור מכונן	Fisher, R.A. (1936). The Use of Multiple Measurements in Taxonomic Problems. Annals of Eugenics, 7(2), 179–188.	Cox, D. R. (1958). The regression analysis of binary sequences. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 20(2), 215–242.
כינויים	LDA, Fisher's LDA, Fisher's linear discriminant, discriminant function analysis	logit model, binomial logistic regression, LR
קשורות	7	3
תקציר	Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a parametric supervised classification method that finds the linear combination of continuous predictors that best separates two or more predefined groups. Introduced by Ronald A. Fisher in his landmark 1936 paper on taxonomic measurements, it simultaneously serves as a classifier and a dimensionality-reduction tool, and can be understood as the classification-oriented counterpart of MANOVA.	Logistic regression is a statistical method for modeling the probability of a binary outcome (disease present/absent, success/failure) as a function of continuous and categorical predictors. Developed by David Roxbee Cox (1958), it solves the problem of predicting categorical outcomes by applying a logistic transformation to constrain predictions to the [0,1] probability interval, enabling accurate risk stratification, diagnostic prediction, and causal inference in epidemiology, medicine, and social science.