2. Purpose
To predict group membership from a set of
predictors
Level of DV > 2
What analytic strategy will you use?
3. Kinds of research questions
Goals of discriminant analysis are to find the
dimension or dimensions along which groups differ,
and to find classification function to predict group
membership.
Significance of prediction
Number of significant discriminant functions
Dimensions of discrimination
Classification functions
Adequacy of classification
Effect size
Importance of predictor variables
Significance of prediction with covariates
Estimation of group means
4. Limitations to discriminant analysis
Theoretical issues
Random assignment
Generalizability
Practical issues
Unequal sample size, missing data, and power
Multivariate normality
Absence of outliers
Homogeneity of variance-covariance matrices
Linearity
Absence of multicollinearity and singularity
5. Fundamental equation for discriminant analysis
Derivation and test of discriminant functions
𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 = 𝑆 𝑏𝑔 + 𝑆 𝑤𝑔
Λ =
𝑆 𝑤𝑔
𝑆 𝑏𝑔 + 𝑆 𝑤𝑔
Approximate F = 𝑑𝑓1, 𝑑𝑓2 =
1−𝑦
𝑦
𝑑𝑓2
𝑑𝑓1
Λ
1
2 = 𝑦;
25. Use of classification procedure
Generalization (hit ratio)
Cross-validation and new case
Jackknified classification
Leave one out classification
Evaluating improvement in classification
Sequential
Early step
classification
Correct Incorrect
Later step
classification
Correct A B
Incorrect C D
χ2 1 =
𝐵 − 𝐶 − 1
𝐵 + 𝐶
27. Procedure
1. Research question
2. Designing a canonical analysis
3. Check the assumptions
4. Derive canonical analysis and assess overall fit
5. Interpret the canonical variate
6. Validation and diagnosis