Abstract #301732

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301732
Activity Number: 133
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2003 : 12:00 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract - #301732
Title: The Effect of Across-location Heteroscedasticity on the Classification of Mixed Categorical and Continuous Data
Author(s): Chi-Ying Leung*+
Companies: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Address: Dept. of Statistics, Hong Kong, , , Peoples Republic of China
Keywords: location linear discriminant function ; across-location heteroscedasticity ; expected overall error rate ; performance index ; asymptotic expansions
Abstract:

Classification of mixed categorical and continuous data is often performed using the location linear discriminant function, which assumes across-location homoscedasticity. We investigate the hazard arising from a routine application of the classifier under across-location heteroscedasticity. A limiting and a first-order asymptotic performance index are proposed and studied in a general setting. The first index studies the limiting behavior. The second index corrects the bias due to the finite sample size. Both indexes are illustrated under the assumption of unequal spherical covariance matrices across all the locations.This is likely to be the case in most classification problems dealing with mixed categorical and continuous data. Results of a numerical study are reported.

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