Thus there are two related activities or concepts in discrimination and classification Descriptive discrimination focuses on finding a few dimensions that combine the originally measured variables and that separate the classes or collections as much as possible p Optimal assignment of new objects, whose real group membership is not known, into one of the existing groups or classes The basic objective of discriminant analysis produce a rule or a classification scheme that will enable a researcher to predict the population from which an 2o2 observation is most likely to have come. cxt2021/2/22 4 cxt ❖ Thus, there are two related activities or concepts in discrimination and classification: • Descriptive discrimination focuses on finding a few dimensions that combine the originally measured variables and that separate the classes or collections as much as possible. • Optimal assignment of new objects, whose real group membership is not known, into one of the existing groups or classes. ❖ The basic objective of discriminant analysis: produce a rule or a classification scheme that will enable a researcher to predict the population from which an observation is most likely to have come