discriminant function

English

Noun

discriminant function (plural discriminant functions)

1. (mathematics) A function used to predict a categorical dependent variable by one or more continuous or binary independent variables.

Hypernyms

• function

Hyponyms

• linear discriminant function

Translations

function

• German: Diskriminanzfunktion f
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Further reading

• discriminant function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia