A Discriminant Function Is a Linear Combination of the Independent $$D F = v _ { 1 } X _ { 1 } + \mathcal { V } _ { 2 } X _ { 2 } + \ldots + \mathcal { V } _ { m } X _ { m }$$

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A discriminant function is a linear combination of the independent variables that makes the predicted mean for each category as different as possible.This function is of the form
$$D F = v _ { 1 } X _ { 1 } + \mathcal { V } _ { 2 } X _ { 2 } + \ldots + \mathcal { V } _ { m } X _ { m }$$

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