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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/CSAM.2015.22.5.475

Graphical Methods for the Sensitivity Analysis in Discriminant Analysis  

Jang, Dae-Heung (Department of Statistics, Pukyong National University)
Anderson-Cook, Christine M. (Statistical Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Kim, Youngil (School of Business and Economics, Chung-Ang University)
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Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods / v.22, no.5, 2015 , pp. 475-485 More about this Journal
Abstract
Similar to regression, many measures to detect influential data points in discriminant analysis have been developed. Many follow similar principles as the diagnostic measures used in linear regression in the context of discriminant analysis. Here we focus on the impact on the predicted classification posterior probability when a data point is omitted. The new method is intuitive and easily interpretable compared to existing methods. We also propose a graphical display to show the individual movement of the posterior probability of other data points when a specific data point is omitted. This enables the summaries to capture the overall pattern of the change.
Keywords
discriminant analysis; influence detection measure; individual movement plot; influential observations;
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