[R] Discriminant analysis to select best treatment

[Felipe Martínez-Pastor]

I am designing an experiment to trial several analytic techniques on
samples submitted to different treatments. It has occurred to me that I
may use discriminant analysis to find out which kind of analysis best
reveals differences between treatments.

I have found the lda {MASS} in R. However, I am not sure if it is
adequate to my case, since it performs linear discriminant analysis but
--apparently-- not variable selection. In SAS I would use the STEPDISC
procedure, whose description is:
"uses forward selection, backward elimination, or stepwise selection to
try to find a subset of quantitative variables that best reveals
differences among the classes."

I wonder if I could use lda or other function in that way. Maybe you
could point me to any resource (I am really new in discriminant analysis).

Thank you.

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Felipe Martínez Pastor, Ph. D.
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