Neural Discriminant Models, Bootstrapping, and Simulation

Table 1

Comparison of various discriminant methods for simulated data.

Model	Apparent error rate
	Training sample	Test sample
Multiple-group neural discriminant model (ℎ = 5)	0.290	0.308
Proportional odds model	0.550	0.543
Linear discriminant model	0.545	0.525
Quadratic discriminant model	0.518	0.500
Tree-based model	0.290	0.345