Abstract

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a typical method for classification problems with large dimensions and small samples. There are various types of LDA methods that are based on the different types of estimators for the covariance matrices and mean vectors. In this paper, we consider shrinkage methods based on a non-parametric approach. For the precision matrix, methods based on the sparsity structure or data splitting are examined. Regarding the estimation of mean vectors, Non-parametric Empirical Bayes (NPEB) methods and Non-parametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation (NPMLE) methods, also known as f-modeling and g-modeling, respectively, are adopted. The performance of linear discriminant rules based on combined estimation strategies of the covariance matrix and mean vectors are analyzed in this study. Particularly, the study presents a theoretical result on the performance of the NPEB method and compares it with previous studies. Simulation studies with various covariance matrices and mean vector structures are conducted to evaluate the methods discussed in this paper. Furthermore, real data examples such as gene expressions and EEG data are also presented.

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