LDA: Linear Discriminant Analysis — How to Improve Your Models with Supervised Dimensionality Reduction

An in-depth comparison of PCA and LDA with Python examples

Saul Dobilas
Towards Data Science
12 min readAug 8, 2021

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Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Image by author.

Intro

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a commonly used dimensionality reduction technique. However, despite the similarities to Principal Component Analysis…

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