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note 7: gaussian discriminant analysis, qda, lda

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36 Jonathan Richard Shewchuk 7 Gaussian Discriminant Analysis, including QDA and LDA GAUSSIAN DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS Fundamental assumption: each class has a normal distribution [a Gaussian]. ! 2 1 kx µk2 X ⇠ N(µ, ) : f (x) = p exp . [µ & x = vectors; = scalar; d = dimension] ( 2⇡ )d 2 2 For each class C, suppose we know mean µC and variance 2C , yielding PDF fX|Y=C (x),…

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