Discriminant Analysis: Statnotes, from North Carolina State University, Public Administration ProgramKey Terms and Concepts Discriminating variables: These are the independent variables, also called predictors. The criterion variable. This is the dependent variable, also called the grouping variable in SPSS. It is the object of classification efforts. Discriminant function: A discriminant function, also called a canonical root, is a latent variable which is created as a linear combination of d
