Hello, I am Souradeep Chattopadhyay and I am a graduate student at Iowa State University Department of Statistics.
Can anyone please explain the mathematical formulation behind the scaling matrix returned by the qda function in MASS package. I want to understand how this scaling matrix is derived from the inputs given to the qda function. Example Code The following example is using the banknote data in the MCLUST package. *Code* require(MASS) require(mclust) data(banknote) quad<-qda(banknote[,-1], grouping=banknote$Status, method="mle") quad$scaling Scaling matrix returned by qda for this data is , , counterfeit 1 2 3 4 5 6 Length 2.853988 1.069414 -0.05279774 0.750531723 -0.2053821 0.6986088 Left 0.000000 -4.208108 -3.04707132 -0.026804815 -0.8644062 -1.1088947 Right 0.000000 0.000000 4.27383763 0.003205759 0.3313675 1.3865888 Bottom 0.000000 0.000000 0.00000000 0.917596063 -0.8707772 0.7274894 Top 0.000000 0.000000 0.00000000 0.000000000 -2.2041415 0.6956074 Diagonal 0.000000 0.000000 0.00000000 0.000000000 0.0000000-2.1879157 , , genuine 1 2 3 4 5 6 Length 2.592911 -1.169164 0.6105339 -0.3614352 -0.2520496 -0.5281743 Left 0.000000 3.027882 2.2392994 -0.2842368 -1.2092325 0.6927868 Right 0.000000 0.000000 -3.8684746 -0.3972362 -0.4177546 -0.1062555 Bottom 0.000000 0.000000 0.0000000 1.6376150 1.7274240 0.3969998 Top 0.000000 0.000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 2.3022115 0.6318543 Diagonal 0.000000 0.000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 2.4516680 Thanks and Regards Souradeep [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.