discriminant analysis_groups 3 _ 6_part 2
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Discriminant analysisTRANSCRIPT
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DataDependent Variable: ‘Smoke’ (whether the employee smoked or not)Dependent variable categories: 1 – Non-smoker & 2 – Smoker
Independent variables1. Age2. Days absent sick from work last year3. Self concept score4. Anxiety score
Aim of the analysis is to determine whether the above mentioned independent variables will discriminate between the employees who smoke and who do not
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SPSS steps1. Analyze >> Classify >> Discriminant 2. Select ‘smoke’ as the grouping variable and
enter it into the grouping variable box and in the define range box enter 1 for min and 2 for max
3. Include the independent variables in the Independents box
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SPSS steps contd…4. Click on Statistics button and select Means, Univariate Anovas, Box’s M, Unstandardized and Within-Groups correlation and click Continue
5. Click on Classify button and select Within-groups covariance matric, Summary table, Leave-one-out classification and all the plots. Select Compute from group sizes for prior probabilities and click Continue
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SPSS steps contd…6. Click on Save button. Select Predicted group membership, Discriminant scores and Probabilities of group membership and click Continue
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SPSS output
Case processing summary indicates sample size & missing data
Strong statistical evidence of significant differences between means of smoke and no smoke groups for all IV’s with self-concept and anxiety producing very high value F’s
Mean differences between self-concept scores & anxiety scores may be good discriminators as the difference in values are large
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SPSS output contd…
Log determinant values are within rangeCanonical correlation of 0.780 i.e., this model explains 0.7802 = 60.84% of the variance
Highly significant discriminant function with p value close to zeroF value of 13.272 ; p value close to 0
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SPSS output contd…
Self-concept score is the strongest predictor followed by anxiety score
Non-smokers have a mean of 1.044 and smokers have a mean of -1.483
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SPSS output contd…
Cutoff Score {0.587 * 1.044} + {0.413 * (-1.483)} = 3.49 e-4
If discriminant score > 3.49e-4 then the record belongs to group 2. Else, belongs to group 1
Classification/Confusion/Prediction Matrix
92.2% of the cases correctly classified.
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SPSS output contd…
Discriminant function
-1.998 + 0.028 * Age + 0.085 * Selfcon - 0.099 * Anxiety - 0.006 * Absence
Records classified into groups 1/2 as per the discriminant scores
Unstandardized coefficients
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References1. http://studysites.uk.sagepub.com/burns/website%20material/Chapter%2025%20-%
20Discriminant%20Analysis.pdf2. Business Research Methods 8e, Zikmund, Babin, Carr, Adhikari, Griffin