[R]parameters calculated by lda and qda

[Uwe Ligges]

Power, Anne Marie wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I am not sure if I remember correctly a mail last week to this messageboard
> where Prof Ripley said Fisher's discriminants are not used in lda within R
> and that Rao's are used instead, is this true?  I looked in MASS (1996) but
> I couldn't find the reference to this in chapter 12 (multivariate analysis),

Chapter 12 "Classification" in the 4th edition (2002) of MASS has a 
description and gives references.


> the (help)lda doesn't tell me either.  Could anyone tell me where can I find
> out this information as I am also interested in the method for qda?

See the recent edition of MASS for qda() as well.

Uwe Ligges

> Thanks
> 
> Anne
> 
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