R help - Feb 2003 - Mass: lda and collinear variables

hello list,

when I use method lda of the MASS package I experience a warning:
variables are collinear in: lda.default(data[train, ], classes[train])

Is there an easy way to recover from this issue within the MASS package?
Or how can I tell how severe this issue is at all?

I understand that I shouldn't use lda at all with collinear data and should
use "quadratische" (squared?) discr. analysis (by Welch) instead. Or
is
this wrong? Could I do this in R? 

Thanks four your help,
Till Baumg?rtel





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What is the dimension of your data. i.e. how many observations and how many
variables do you have?

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From: Till Baumgaertel [mailto:till.baumgaertel at epost.de] 
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:41 AM
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Subject: [R] Mass: lda and collinear variables


hello list,

when I use method lda of the MASS package I experience a warning: variables are
collinear in: lda.default(data[train, ], classes[train])

Is there an easy way to recover from this issue within the MASS package? Or how
can I tell how severe this issue is at all?

I understand that I shouldn't use lda at all with collinear data and should
use "quadratische" (squared?) discr. analysis (by Welch) instead. Or
is this wrong? Could I do this in R?

Thanks four your help,
Till Baumg?rtel





________________________________________
Abos online bestellen. Oder Leser werben und Pr?mie aussuchen.
http://www.epost.de/aboservice

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