Nonlinear Fisher discriminant analysis using a minimum squared error cost function and the orthogonal least squares algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Steve A. Billings;Kian L. Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, P.O. Box 600, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK;Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, P.O. Box 600, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK

  • Venue:
  • Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The nonlinear discriminant function obtained using a minimum squared error cost function can be shown to be directly related to the nonlinear Fisher discriminant (NFD). With the squared error cost function, the orthogonal least squares (OLS) algorithm can be used to find a parsimonious description of the nonlinear discriminant function. Two simple classification techniques will be introduced and tested on a number of real and artificial data sets. The results show that the new classification technique can often perform favourably compared with other state of the art classification techniques.