[R] discriminant analysis: prerequisites

Christoph Lehmann christoph.lehmann at gmx.ch
Tue May 13 10:31:57 CEST 2003


Dear R users
Could someone explain me, why I need more observations than variables to
conduct a discriminant analysis (as I was told by one of our teachers)?

I have n = 66 observations, and 133 + 3 + 7 + 8 variables. Well, for the
first 133 variables, I could conduct a PCA first, to reduce the amount
of information.

Thanks for an answer.

Cheers

Christoph
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Christoph Lehmann <christoph.lehmann at gmx.ch>




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