Perhaps, I should complement my previous e-mail question: I am trying to select variables through a quadratic discriminant analysis. It seems to me that a robust criterion is the value of the discriminatory power (i.e. the ratio of the separation of the class means to within-class variance) How can I obtain this ratio from V & R's qda() output ? Thanks (I hope this question is relevant) -- Daniel AMORESE Lab. M2C "Morphodynamique Continentale et C?ti?re" UMR CNRS 6143 Caen/Rouen Centre de G?omorphologie UCBN (Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie) 14032 Caen Cedex FRANCE Ph: +33 (0)2 31 56 57 19 Fax: +33 (0)2 31 56 57 57 Courriel: amorese at geos.unicaen.fr http://www.geos.unicaen.fr/perso/da/daperso.html -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._