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Journal of the American Statistical Association Volume 73, 1978 - Issue 364
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Choosing between Logistic Regression and Discriminant Analysis

S. James Press Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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Sandra Wilson School of Business, University of Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, 50613, USA
Pages 699-705 | Received 01 Feb 1977, Published online: 05 Apr 2012

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