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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 discriminant analysis (QDA) is a widely used classification technique that generalizes the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) classifier to the case of distinct covariance matrices among classes. For the QDA classifier to yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Houssem Sifaou , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

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

Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a widely used classification technique. Based on a training dataset, each class in the data is characterized by an estimate of its center and shape, which can then be used to assign unseen…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-13 Iwein Vranckx , Jakob Raymaekers , Bart De Ketelaere , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Mia Hubert

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a classical method for dimensionality reduction, where discriminant vectors are sought to project data to a lower dimensional space for optimal separability of classes. Several recent papers have…

Computation · Statistics 2022-03-04 Summer Atkins , Gudmundur Einarsson , Brendan Ames , Line Clemmensen

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a widely used algorithm in machine learning to extract a low-dimensional representation of high-dimensional data, it features to find the orthogonal discriminant projection subspace by using the Fisher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Wanguang Yin , Zhengming Ma , Quanying Liu

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

We consider multi-class classification problems for high dimensional data. Following the idea of reduced-rank linear discriminant analysis (LDA), we introduce a new dimension reduction tool with a flavor of supervised principal component…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-28 Yue Selena Niu , Ning Hao , Bin Dong

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

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

Linear and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (LDA and QDA) are well-known classical methods but can heavily suffer from non-Gaussian distributions and/or contaminated datasets, mainly because of the underlying Gaussian assumption that is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-06 Pierre Houdouin , Matthieu Jonckheere , Frederic Pascal

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a fundamental classification and dimension reduction method that achieves Bayes optimality under Gaussian mixture, but often struggles in high-dimensional settings where the covariance matrix cannot be…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-06 Cencheng Shen , Yuexiao Dong

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

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

Dimensionality reduction is a crucial step for pattern recognition and data mining tasks to overcome the curse of dimensionality. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a traditional technique for unsupervised dimensionality reduction, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Zan Gao , Guotai Zhang , Feiping Nie , Hua Zhang

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

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

As one of the most popular linear subspace learning methods, the Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) method has been widely studied in machine learning community and applied to many scientific applications. Traditional LDA minimizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Feiping Nie , Hua Wang , Zheng Wang , Heng Huang

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
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