Discriminant Analysis

Wolfgang Karl Härdle and Zdeněk Hlávka
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Wolfgang Karl Härdle: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, C.A.S.E. Centre f. Appl. Stat. & Econ. School of Business and Economics
Zdeněk Hlávka: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Department of Statistics

Chapter Chapter 14 in Multivariate Statistics, 2015, pp 245-258 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Discriminant analysis is used in situations where the clusters are known a priori. The aim of discriminant analysis is to classify an observation, or several observations, into these known groups. For instance, in credit scoring, a bank knows from past experience that there are good customers (who repay their loan without any problems) and bad customers (who have had difficulties repaying their loans). When a new customer asks for a loan, the bank has to decide whether or not to give the loan. The information of the bank is given in two data sets: multivariate observations on the two categories of customers (including age, salary, marital status, the amount of the loan, and the like).

Keywords: Point Cloud; Prior Probability; Wrong Classification; Bank Note; Discriminant Rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36005-3_14

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