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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: Is PCA the same as DA?
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In article <E6unMx.922@unx.sas.com>, saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle) writes:
|> ...
|> Principal component analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised data-compression
|> technique that possesses numerous marvelous optimality properties.
|> Discriminant analysis is any method for statistical pattern recognition
                                          ^
Oops, I left out the word "supervised".

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