Help: lda predict

I compared "posterior" of these three prediction results, they are a
little different.

The book you mentioned should be "Modern Applied Statistics with S.
4th edition". But this book has been borrowed out from our univeristy
library by someone else,

 and I have checked the book "Pattern
Recognition and Neural Networks" which does not mention these three
lda prediction methods.

Thanks you,
Shengzhe

On 8/26/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Shengzhe Wu wrote:

Thanks for your reply. Actually I called function as below.

p1 = predict(object, newdata, dimen=1)
p2 = predict(object, newdata, dimen=1, method=debiased)
p3 = predict(object, newdata, dimen=1, method="predictive")

So why did you say something different?

The MAP classification of prediction results by any method are the
same. I know what the method "plug-in" and "debiased" mean, but what
does the "vague prior" for the method "predictive" mean? what is
"vague" here?

Please do as we ask, and read the book for which this is supporting
material (on p.339, to save you looking in the index).

Thank you,
Shengzhe



On 8/26/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Shengzhe Wu wrote:

I use lda (package: MASS) to obtain a lda object, then want to employ
this object to do the prediction for the new data like below:

predict(object, newdata, dimen=1, method=c("plug-in", "predictive", "debiased"))

That is not how you call it: when a character vector is given like that
those are alternatives.  Do read the help page, as we ask.

What is the exact difference among the three methods? What is the
difference of prediction results when applying different method?

This is stated on the help page.  If you are unfamiliar with the area,
note that the posting guide points out that MASS is support software for a
book and the explanations are in the book.  The help page also has
references: please do read them (before posting).

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595