Re: Data Mining / Machine Learning Dictionary

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vincent64@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
People originally from France, Australia, Canada, UK or India (to name
a few countries) would spell it "discriminant" because that's the way
it's spelled in their country or language of origin.

How many statistics / data mining Ph.D.s, professors or book authors
living in US are born Americans? Less than 25%, most likely. The fact
that 80% of the remaining 75% spell it UK-style does not mean that's
the right spelling, in American English.

All major statistical software packages spell this as "discriminant
analysis":

MINITAB:
http://www.minitab.com/products/minitab/14/features.aspx#Multivariate

SAS:
http://www.sas.com/technologies/analytics/statistics/stat/fact***.pdf

S-Plus:
http://www.insightful.com/support/splus60win/statman2.pdf

SPSS:
http://www.spss.com/spss/data_analysis.htm

STATGRAPHICS:
http://www.statgraphics.com/multivariate_methods.htm

STATISTICIA:
http://www.statsoft.com/products/exploratory.html


Incidentally, all of these companies are headquartered in the United
States.

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