How to Interpret the results of Discriminant Analysis

[Akif Alig]

Hello Everyone

I have used the data:

use https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stat/stata/dae/discrim, clear

Then i did driciminant analysis using the command:

discrim lda outdoor social conservative, group(job)

Result:
Linear discriminant analysis
Resubstitution classification summary

| job
--------+------------------
group1 | customer service
group2 | mechanic
group3 | dispatch

+---------+
| Key |
|---------|
| Number |
| Percent |
+---------+
| Classified
True | group1 group2 group3 | Total
-------------+------------------------+-------
group1 | 70 11 4 | 85
| 82.35 12.94 4.71 | 100.00
| |
group2 | 16 62 15 | 93
| 17.20 66.67 16.13 | 100.00
| |
group3 | 3 12 51 | 66
| 4.55 18.18 77.27 | 100.00
-------------+------------------------+-------
Total | 89 85 70 | 244
| 36.48 34.84 28.69 | 100.00
| |
Priors | 0.3333 0.3333 0.3333 |

estat loadings, standardized unstandardized

Canonical discriminant function coefficients

| function1 function2
-------------+----------------------
outdoor | .0919806 .2250143
social | -.1942741 .0497811
conservative | .154992 -.0873429
_cons | .9369493 -3.623385

Standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients

| function1 function2
-------------+----------------------
outdoor | .3785725 .9261104
social | -.8306986 .2128593
conservative | .5171682 -.2914406


can anyone please describe, how to interpret these results

Many Thanks