Discriminant Analysis - Options
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Allows you to specify prior probabilities, predict group membership for new observations, and control the display of Session window output.

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Prior probabilities: Enter prior probabilities. You may type in the probabilities or specify constants (K) that contain stored values. There should be one value for each group. The first value will be assigned to the group with the smallest code, the second to the group with the second smallest code, etc. If the probabilities do not sum to one, Minitab normalizes them. See Prior Probabilities.

Predict group membership for: Enter values for predicting group membership for new observations.

Display of Results:

Do not display: Choose to suppress all results. Requested storage is done.

Classification matrix: Choose to display only the classification matrix.

Above plus ldf, distances, and misclassification summary: Choose to display the classification matrix, the squared distance between group centers, linear discriminant function, and a summary of misclassified observations.

Above plus mean, std. dev., and covariance summary: Choose to display the classification matrix, the squared distance between group centers, linear discriminant function, a summary of misclassified observations, means, standard deviations, and covariance matrices, for each group and pooled.

Above plus complete classification summary: Choose to display the classification matrix, the squared distance between group centers, linear discriminant function, a summary of misclassified observations, means, standard deviations, covariance matrices, for each group and pooled, and a summary of how all observations were classified. Minitab notes misclassified observations with two asterisks beside the observation number.