Fisher’s pioneering work on discriminant analysis and its impact on Artificial Intelligence

• Published in: Journal of multivariate analysis Vol. 203; p. 105341
• Main Author: Mardia, Kanti V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.09.2024
• Subjects: Canonical variates; Classification; Genetic discriminant; Iris data; Linear discriminant function; Machine learning; Mardia’s measures of skewness and kurtosis; Visualising multivariate data; secondary; Canonical variates; Iris data; Linear discriminant function; Classification; Machine learning; Visualising multivariate data; Genetic discriminant; Mardia’s measures of skewness and kurtosis; primary

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher opened many new areas in Multivariate Analysis, and the one which we will consider is discriminant analysis. Several papers by Fisher and others followed from his seminal paper in 1936 where he coined the name discrimination function. Historically, his four papers on discrim...