The Effects of Initially Misclassified Data on the Effectiveness of Discriminant Function Analysis and Finite Mixture Modeling

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-55

  Holden, Jocelyn E ^a   Kelley, Ken ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; linear discriminant function analysis; misclassification; mixture model; quadratic discriminant function analysis; training data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993734778     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164409344533     Document Type: Article

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