A function of several variates used to assign items into one of two or more groups. The function for a particular set of items is obtained from measurements of the variates of items which belong to a known group.
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- The discriminant function was deemed significant at the 0.01 level.
- These lineages were characterized by means of a discriminant function separating the putative ancestral sample from the youngest sample of one of the species.
- The discriminant function that separates the two groups best is statistically significant at the 5% level.
- Of 97 students who did not meet state benchmark standards, the discriminant function accurately predicted 88 cases.
- The second discriminant function differentiated the HU group from the other two groups.