High-breakdown estimation is a procedure designed to remove this cause for concern by producing estimates that are immune to serious distortion by a minority of outliers, regardless of their severity.

An estimate for the loss of the classification power when a single variate is excluded from the linear discriminant function is given. A criterion is proposed for the omission of a variate without an ...

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was applied on these parameters to differentiate the opiate addicts included in MMTP or in detoxification treatment and the healthy subjects.