Discriminant Analysis Tutorial

By Kardi Teknomo, PhD.

Discriminant analysis is a statistical technique to classify objects into mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups based on a set of measurable object's features. Term discriminant analysis comes with many different names for difference field of study. It is also often called pattern recognition , supervised learning, or supervised classification . This tutorial gives overview about Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). If the number of classes is more than two, it is also sometimes called Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA). You can download the MS Excel worksheet companion of this tutorial here

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Purpose of discriminant Analysis

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA)

LDA formula

Numerical example

Difference of Cluster Analysis and Discriminant Analysis

Example of Applications

Resources on Discriminant Analysis

See Also: Similarity and dissimilarity measurement (multivariate distance), K means clustering, K nearest neighbor algorithm

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Preferable reference for this tutorial is

Teknomo, Kardi. Discriminant Analysis Tutorial. http://people.revoledu.com/kardi/ tutorial/LDA/