[R] plot discriminant analysis

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Oct 14 18:36:59 CEST 2009


On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Alejo C.S. wrote:

> Hi Alain, thanks for the fast response. I've the same results with  
> iris
> data, but when I use my data (mentioned in the first message),

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> I have
> different results.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alejo
>
> 2009/10/14 Alain Guillet <alain.guillet at uclouvain.be>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did it with
>>
>> Iris <- data.frame(rbind(iris3[,,1], iris3[,,2], iris3[,,3]), Sp =
>> rep(c("s","c","v"), rep(50,3)))
>> train <- sample(1:150, 75) table(Iris$Sp[train])
>> z <- lda(Sp ~ ., Iris, prior = c(1,1,1)/3, subset = train)
>>
>> Then I did plot(z,xlim=c(-10,10),ylim=c(-10,10)) before drawing
>> points(predict(z)$x,
>> col=palette()[predict(z)$class],xlim=c(-10,10),ylim=c(-10,10)) and  
>> all the
>> points are superimposed. The only difference I found was the  
>> different x-
>> and y-axis when I drew them separately, i.e.
>> plot(z)
>> plot(predict(z)$x, col=palette()[predict(z)$class])
>>
>>
>> Alain
>>
>>
>>
>> Alejo C.S. wrote:
>>
>>> I'm confused on how is the right way to plot a discriminant  
>>> analysis made
>>> by
>>> lda function (MASS package).
>>> (I had attached my data fro reproduction). When I plot a lda  
>>> object :
>>>
>>> X <- read.table("data", header=T)
>>>
>>> lda_analysis <- lda(formula(X), data=X)
>>>
>>> plot(lda_analysis)
>>>
>>> #the above plot is completely different to:
>>>
>>> plot(predict(lda_analysis)$x, col=palette()[predict(lda_analysis) 
>>> $class])
>>>
>>> that should be the same graph than the first?
>>>
>>> In the second case, I use predict function to obtain the LD1 and LD2
>>> coordinates of lda_analysis (predict(lda_analysis)$x) and it's  
>>> respective
>>> class (predict(lda_analysis)$class), but it seems that the classes  
>>> are
>>> different:
>>>
>>> table(X$G3, predict(lda_analysis)$class)
>>>
>>>       B    G   M
>>> B  29    0    3
>>> G    0  26   2
>>> M   4    0  46
>>>
>>>
>>> any clues?
>>> Regards,
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>>
>> --
>> Alain Guillet
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>>
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