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IF WE HAVE multivariate observations from two or more identified populations, how can we characterize them? Is there a combination of measurements to clearly distinguish between these groups? It is not good enough to simply say the mean of one variable is statistically higher in one group in order to solve this problem, because the histograms of the groups may have considerable overlap making the discriminatory process only a little better than guesswork.
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Zelterman, D. (2022). Discrimination and Classification. In: Applied Multivariate Statistics with R. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13005-2_10
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