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Analysis of Errors in Problems of Physiopathological Discrimination among Subjects

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Since Sir Ronald Fisher (1) proposed in 1935 a discriminant function analysis with an application to a taxonomic problem,many methods for classifying subjects into one of a set of classes, given a series of measurements made on each subject, have been extensively developed.

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Belforte, G. (1981). Analysis of Errors in Problems of Physiopathological Discrimination among Subjects. In: Cardús, D., Vallbona, C. (eds) Computers and Mathematical Models in Medicine. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93159-8_12

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