| Article ID: | iaor19982514 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 78 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 71 |
| End Page Number: | 82 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1998 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Venkataramanan M.A., Cabot A. Victor, Conway Daniel G. |
| Keywords: | programming: integer |
In this paper we propose a genetic algorithm for discriminant analysis. The genetic fitness function uses duality principles of mathematical programming to solve the linear discriminant problem. The genetic method performed well in empirical testing and also provides the reasoning power behind the mathematical programming models.