> Perhaps some reading would be helpful. I suggest you look first at the > help file for lda(). Second, I suggest you read Venables and Ripley, MASS, > 4th Edition, where lda() is discussed extensively. Third, I suggest you > read Ripley's Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, where the theory is > laid out clearly. Both of these latter books are referenced in lda's help > file.
I am quite familiar with all of these references. The theory behind LDA is not where the problem is - I'm comfortable with that. The problem is that I do not know what R is computing when it prints "Coefficients of linear discriminants". (According to the source code (lda.R), it's x$scaling, but I don't know what that is either.) > Finally, you might want to tell us what version of lda() you're using, what > version of R you're using, and what platform you're running on. For all > we know, you're using a 2-year old version of R and lda, both long > superceded by vastly improved programs and packages. R-1.9.1 on linux Caren ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html