On Transformation Discriminant Analysis

Jing Li Co-Author
 
Yana Melnykov First Author
University of Alabama
 
Yana Melnykov Presenting Author
University of Alabama
 
Wednesday, Aug 6: 11:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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Contributed Papers 
Music City Center 
Multigroup discriminant analysis is a key classification technique with diverse applications. Linear and quadratic discriminant analysis (LDA and QDA) are popular methods that assume normal class distributions. This limits their application to non-normal data. We propose a transformation-based extension of LDA and QDA to handle asymmetry and skewness. Simulations and real-world applications show our method outperforms existing approaches in various scenarios.

Keywords

Transformation

discriminant analysis

classification 

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