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The goal of classification, also known as supervised pattern recognition, is to provide a model that yields the optimal discrimination between several classes in terms of predictive performance.
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In statistics this is known as the sample covariance matrix.
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Note that in this function the variables are in the rows of the data matrix and not, as usual, in the columns—hence the use of the transpose function.
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Wehrens, R. (2020). Classification. In: Chemometrics with R. Use R!. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62027-4_7
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