DFA

The predictive model (discriminant function analysis) output showed greater than 85 % of estimated ages being correctly classified to their ages obtained from sectioned otoliths observed under the microscope in the three stocks of S.

Results of discriminant function analysis, F-values for the variables and classification functions for the cranial and dental variables of two sibling species of genus Mus from Slovakia, the house mouse (M.

Sex determination by discriminant function analysis of palatal rugae from a population of coastal Andhra.

The results of the applied statistical treatment proved reliability and confirmed accuracy of the discriminant function analysis approach applied in our sample.

Linear discriminant function analysis (DFA) was executed to predict and classify each specimen to their respective populations based on their morphometric features.

(2) Multivariate discriminant function analysis was used to analyze sex differences within the skulls.

We used SPSS (IBM Corporation) to run the Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and the stepwise Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA).

Different grades of three kinds of Chinese dry-cured hams (Jinhua, Xuanwei, and Rugao ham) were analyzed using discriminant function analysis (DFA) by the electronic nose (Figure 2).

We applied laser induced breakdown spectroscopy in coincidence with the discriminant function analysis for the quantitative investigation of five different types of quartz samples, namely, crystal quartz, lapis quartz, pink quartz, tourmaline quartz, and amethyst quartz.

Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) was conducted to identify how the dependent variables differed as a function of SIDS.

Statistical tests used were student's 't' test, Hotelling [T.sup.2] test for multivariate analysis and discriminant function analysis with SPSS.

Third, we conducted discriminant function analysis by grade.