Decision Analytics: Microsoft® Excel®

6. Discriminant Function Analysis: Further Issues

In This Chapter

Using the Discriminant Workbook

Why Run a Discriminant Analysis on Irises?

Benchmarking with R

The Results of the Discrim Add-In

Classifying the Cases

Training Samples: The Classification Is Known Beforehand

Chapter 5, “Discriminant Function Analysis: The Basics,” provides a relatively brief look at the purposes of discriminant analysis and its relationships to multiple regression analysis—at least in the two-group case. Those relationships go well beyond the simple two-group case, although it’s more difficult to demonstrate them with three groups or more.

This chapter takes the discussion further. It provides examples of discriminant analysis with more than just two groups and ...