Regularization of the location model in discrimination with mixed discrete and continuous variables

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 563-576

  Merbouha, A ^a   Mkhadri, A ^b  

^a SULTAN MOULAY SLIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Conjugate priors; Hierarchical covariance priors; Location model; Predictive discrimination; Regularized discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BAYSIAN METHODS; REGULARIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842630345     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00067-7     Document Type: Article

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