predict.lda posteriors equal to 1

If you try

library(MASS)
example(lda)
predict(z)$posterior

You will see there are very many posterior probabilities there, too, which differe from 1 by round-off error at most.  So your data are not unique.

I don't get why you don't get it. 


Bill Venables
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ 


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Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone was able to explain to me why when I run
predict.lda() on some new data I get lots of posterior probabilities = 1. 
This seems markedly unrealistic.  What do the posteriors mean in the context
of the predict.lda() function?

Thanks

Gareth

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