The Linear Discriminant Function: Sampling from the Truncated Normal Distribution Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • AbstractA study is made of the behaviour of the linear discriminant function in the classification of an observation when sampling from a truncated normal distribution. It is shown that the truncation proves ‘beneficial’ in that it reduces the error rates.

publication date

  • January 1987