abstract:Discriminant function analysis is a statistical analysis to predict a categorical dependent variable (called a grouping variable) by one or more continuous or binary independent variables (called predictor variables). The original dichotomous discriminant analysis was developed by Sir Ronald Fisher in 1936Cohen et al.
Acomputerizedapparatus for making the determination preferably using a probabilitydensityfunction generated from a setofreferencedataby alineardiscriminantanalysisprocedure is disclosed.