Nonlinear Fisher discriminant analysis using a minimum squared error cost function and the orthogonal least squares algorithm

The nonlinear discriminant function obtained using a minimum squared error cost function can be shown to be directly related to the nonlinear Fisher discriminant (NFD). With the squared error cost function, the orthogonal least squares (OLS) algorithm can be used to find a parsimonious description of the nonlinear discriminant function. Two simple classification techniques will be introduced and tested on a number of real and artificial data sets. The results show that the new classification technique can often perform favourably compared with other state of the art classification techniques. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.