How Did Linear Discriminant Analysis Get It’s Name?

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Despite being one of the most poorly publicized machine learning classification tools, Linear Discriminant Analysis or LDA can match and even outperform logistic regression in a variety of settings. LDA is often used in machine learning for dimensionality reduction but it can also be effectively used for classification. In this article we will delve into the math underlying classification with LDA.