Re: st: Cluster/PCA for predicting a binary outcome?

["E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

You're looking for discriminant analysis (look up Stata help on 
discrim)...  It's like PCA, but you can think of it as selecting the 
loadings to maximize the F-value if you did a 1-way ANOVA by your class 
variable.

But, for a binary outcome, many simply use logistic regression.

P

K Jensen wrote:

> Hi
> I am trying to predict a binary outcome from a set of correlated
> variables.  Rather than using logisitic regression to include the
> variables one-by-one in the model, I was wondering if there was a way
> in Stata of generating sets or functions of the variables?  Maybe
> something similar to PCA, except that you would be trying to explain
> the variation in the binary outcome rather than the whole dataset.
> I hope that this makes some sort of sense!
> Thankyou
> Karin
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