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Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a widely used method for classification problems, particularly preferable over Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) for heterogeneous data. However, QDA loses its effectiveness in high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Wenya Luo , Hua Li , Zhidong Bai , Zhijun Liu

The use of quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) or its regularized version (R-QDA) for classification is often not recommended, due to its well-acknowledged high sensitivity to the estimation noise of the covariance matrix. This becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-15 Amine Bejaoui , Khalil Elkhalil , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed Slim Alouni , Tarek Al-Naffouri

Discriminant analysis, including linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA), is a popular approach to classification problems. It is well known that LDA is suboptimal to analyze heteroscedastic data, for…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Ruiyang Wu , Ning Hao

Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a standard tool for classification due to its simplicity and flexibility. Because the number of its parameters scales quadratically with the number of the variables, QDA is not practical, however,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-06 Binyan Jiang , Xiangyu Wang , Chenlei Leng

Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a simple method to classify a subject into two populations, and was proven to perform as well as the Bayes rule when the data dimension p is fixed. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Qing Yang , Guang Cheng

Quadratic and Linear Discriminant Analysis (QDA/LDA) are the most often applied classification rules under normality. In QDA, a separate covariance matrix is estimated for each group. If there are more variables than observations in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-26 Stéphanie Aerts , Ines Wilms

Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a widely used statistical tool to classify observations from different multivariate Normal populations. The generalized quadratic discriminant analysis (GQDA) classification rule/classifier, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-15 Abhik Ghosh , Rita SahaRay , Sayan Chakrabarty , Sayan Bhadra

Linear and Quadratic Discriminant analysis (LDA/QDA) are common tools for classification problems. For these methods we assume observations are normally distributed within group. We estimate a mean and covariance matrix for each group and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-12-08 Noah Simon , Rob Tibshirani

This tutorial explains Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) as two fundamental classification methods in statistical and probabilistic learning. We start with the optimization of decision boundary on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-07 Benyamin Ghojogh , Mark Crowley

Regularized discriminant analysis (RDA), proposed by Friedman (1989), is a widely popular classifier that lacks interpretability and is impractical for high-dimensional data sets. Here, we present an interpretable and computationally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-07 John A. Ramey , Caleb K. Stein , Phil D. Young , Dean M. Young

In this paper, we study the problem of high-dimensional sparse quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). We propose a novel classification method, termed SSQDA, which is constructed via constrained convex optimization based on the sample…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-16 Anqing Shen , Long Feng

This paper proposes an improved linear discriminant analysis called spectrally-corrected and regularized LDA (SRLDA). This method integrates the design ideas of the sample spectrally-corrected covariance matrix and the regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-11 Hua Li , Wenya Luo , Zhidong Bai , Huanchao Zhou , Zhangni Pu

Consider a two-class classification problem where we observe samples $(X_i, Y_i)$ for i = 1, ..., n, $X_i \in R^p$ and $Y_i$ in {0, 1}. Given $Y_i = k$, $X_i$ is assumed to follow a multivariate normal distribution with mean $\mu_k \in R^k$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Wanjie Wang , Jingjing Wu , Zhigang Yao

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a widely used technique for data classification. The method offers adequate performance in many classification problems, but it becomes inefficient when the data covariance matrix is ill-conditioned.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-08 Maaz Mahadi , Tarig Ballal , Muhammad Moinuddin , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Ubaid M. Al-Saggaf

This paper investigates the effectiveness of using the Random Projection Ensemble (RPE) approach in Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) for ultrahigh-dimensional classification problems. Classical methods such as Linear Discriminant…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-10 Annesha Deb , Minerva Mukhopadhyay , Subhajit Dutta

Multi-group classification arises in many prediction and decision-making problems, including applications in epidemiology, genomics, finance, and image recognition. Although classification methods have advanced considerably, much of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-12 Yuchao Wang , Tianying Wang

Dimensionality reduction (DR) of data is a crucial issue for many machine learning tasks, such as pattern recognition and data classification. In this paper, we present a quantum algorithm and a quantum circuit to efficiently perform linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Kai Yu , Gong-De Guo , Song Lin

In this paper, we study high-dimensional sparse Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) and aim to establish the optimal convergence rates for the classification error. Minimax lower bounds are established to demonstrate the necessity of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-09 T. Tony Cai , Linjun Zhang

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a well-known method for multiclass classification and dimensionality reduction. However, in general, ordinary LDA does not achieve high prediction accuracy when observations in some classes are…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-07 Kei Hirose , Kanta Miura , Atori Koie

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a fundamental method for classification. Its simple linear structure facilitates interpretation, and it is naturally suited to multi-class settings. LDA is also closely connected to several classical…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-09 Xin Bing , Bingqing Li , Marten Wegkamp
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