Selection of variables in two-group discriminant analysis by error rate and Akaike's information criteria (Q1074986)

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Selection of variables in two-group discriminant analysis by error rate and Akaike's information criteria
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    Selection of variables in two-group discriminant analysis by error rate and Akaike's information criteria (English)
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    1985
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    The author considers two criteria for selecting the ''best'' subset of variables for the linear discriminant function in the case of two p- variate normal populations \(\Pi_ 1\), \(\Pi_ 2\) with different means and a common covariance matrix, the means and the matrix being unknown and are to be estimated by random samples of unequal sizes \(N_ 1\), \(N_ 2.\) One criterion is based on minimizing \textit{G. J. McLachlan's} asymptotic unbiased estimate [Biometrics 36, 501-510 (1980; Zbl 0442.62046)] for the error rate of misclassification \[ M(j)=\Phi [-2^{-1}D_ j+2^{- 1}(k_ j-1)(N_ 1^{-1}+N_ 2^{-1})/D_ j+\quad \{32(N_ 1+N_ 2-2)\}^{-1}D_ j\{4(4k_ j-1)-D^ 2_ j\}] \] where \(D_ j\) is the j-subset sample Mahalanobis distance between \(\Pi_ 1\) and \(\Pi_ 2\), and \(k_ j\) is the dimension of this subset. The other selection criterion is based on a ''no additional information'' model minimizing Akaike's information criterion \[ A(j)=(N_ 1+N_ 2)\log \{1+(p-k_ j)F(j)/(N_ 1+N_ 2-p-1)\}+2(k_ j-p), \] \[ where\quad F(j)=\{(N_ 1+N_ 2-p-1)/(p-k_ j)\}(D^ 2-D^ 2_ j)/\{(N_ 1+N_ 2-2)(N_ 1^{-1\quad}+N_ 2^{-1})+D_ j^ 2\}, \] D being the p-variate Mahalanobis distance. It is shown that the expected error rate is closely related to the no additional information model. The asymptotic distributions and error rate risks of both criteria are obtained and are shown to be identical for these criteria, so in this sense the two criteria considered are asymptotically equivalent.
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    two-group discriminant analysis
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    selection of variables
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    linear discriminant function
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    p-variate normal populations
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    different means
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    common covariance matrix
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    asymptotic unbiased estimate
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    error rate of misclassification
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    Mahalanobis distance
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    selection
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    Akaike's information criterion
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    no additional information model
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