R help - May 2002 - quadratic discriminant analysis ?

Hello,

I am a beginner in R and data analysis.
I have the VR (MASS) library installed and "Modern Applied Statististics
with S-Plus" is my bedside book.
Could anybody provide me an R script (or pieces of an R script) to perform
a
stepwise quadratic discriminant analysis ?
Thanks
D. A. 
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On Fri, 17 May 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Daniel Amorèse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a beginner in R and data analysis.
> I have the VR (MASS) library installed and "Modern Applied
Statististics
> with S-Plus" is my bedside book.
> Could anybody provide me an R script (or pieces of an R script) to perform
> a
> stepwise quadratic discriminant analysis ?
That needs distribution theory not implemented in R (to my knowledge).

QDA is rather dependent on multivariate normality, and the stepwise
variants are even more so.  It seems to be very rarely appropriate.

When I wanted an example, a student ran one for me in what I recalled was
SPSS under VMS (and it looks like SPSS output), but last time I looked I
could not see it on the PC version.

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