Week 4: Logistic regression and discriminant analysis

Main reference

ISLR 4.3, 4.4

What you will learn this week

  • Fitting a categorical response using logistic curves
  • Multivariate summary statistics
  • Linear discriminant analysis, assuming samples are elliptically shaped and equal in size
  • Quadratic discriminant analysis, assuming samples are elliptically shaped and different in size
  • Discriminant space: making a low-dimensional visual summary

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