Dear Statalisters,
can anyone help with the following user's question? Thanks!
Yan Li
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the name of the function is daoneway and it performs discriminant analysis
it performs discriminant analysis and the output gives me four sets of
functions:
Unstandardized canonical discriminant function coefficients
standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients
Canonical discriminant structure matrix
Group means on canonical discriminant functions
My question is with interpretation of those functions.
i am unsure which of these functions i should use to assign a new data
point. in other words, how do i use this output to do what discriminant
anaysis is supposed to do,that is, assign a new point to a group.
an example output is below:
. daoneway x1 x2 x3 x4, by (y)
One-way Disciminant Function Analysis
Observations = 20
Variables = 4
Groups = 3
Pct of Cum Canonical After Wilks'
Fcn Eigenvalue Variance Pct Corr Fcn Lambda Chi-square
df P-val
> ue
0 0.31918 17.701 8 0.02
> 36
1 1.2262 75.07 75.07 0.7422 1 0.71057 5.296 3
0.15
> 14
2 0.4073 24.93 100.00 0.5380
Unstandardized canonical discriminant function coefficients
func1 func2
x1 48.1854 -2.6310
x2 -0.3697 4.0740
x3 0.1082 0.0960
x4 -0.0100 0.0890
_cons -0.6798 -3.7256
Standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients
func1 func2
x1 0.8634 -0.0471
x2 -0.0812 0.8951
x3 0.5570 0.4941
x4 -0.0224 0.1992
Canonical discriminant structure matrix
func1 func2
x1 0.8238 -0.2015
x2 -0.2746 0.8472
x3 0.4871 0.4390
x4 0.2206 0.0768
Group means on canonical discriminant functions
func1 func2
y-1 -0.7413 -0.9253
y-2 -0.3983 0.4802
y-3 2.0220 -0.1639
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