An estimate for the loss of the classification power when a single variate is excluded from the linear discriminant function is given. A criterion is proposed for the omission of a variate without an ...

Objective: Biochemical and haematological parameters of nutritional interest were determined in the serum of opiate addicts in order to compare them with those obtained in healthy subjects. Linear ...

Sparse discriminant methods based on independence rules, such as the nearest shrunken centroids classifier (Tibshirani et al., 2002) and features annealed independence rules (Fan & Fan, 2008), have ...

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