STAT4602 Multivariate Data Analysis Assignment 2
Hand in solutions for ALL questions by April 23 (Wednesday), 2025,
11:59pm
1. The file IRIS.DAT gives a dataset containing 4 measurements for 3 species
of iris. In the dataset, each row corresponds to one observation. The first 4
columns gives the 4 measurements, and the last column takes values 1, 2, 3,
corresponding to the 3 species of iris.
(a) Perform multivariate regression for each species separately, treating the
two sepal measures (x1 and x2) as response variables, and the two petal
measures (x3 and x4) as indepedent variables. Report the fitted models.
(b) For the species “versicolour” (serial number 2), test whether the two sets of
regression coefficients (excluding intercepts) are the same in the regression
equations for x1 and for x2.
(c) Consider a multivariate linear model as in (a), but incorporate the
3 species in the model with the aid of additional dummy variables.
Specifically, intorduce new variables:
• s ∈ {0, 1}: s = 1 if species = 1, and s = 0 otherwise.
• v ∈ {0, 1}: v = 1 if species = 2, and v = 0 otherwise.
• sx3 = s · x3: sx3 = x3 if species = 1, and sx3 = 0 otherwise.
• sx4 = s · x4: sx4 = x4 if species = 1, and sx4 = 0 otherwise.
• vx3 = v · x3: vx3 = x3 if species = 2, and vx3 = 0 otherwise.
• vx4 = v · x4: vx4 = x4 if species = 2, and vx4 = 0 otherwise.
Perform the regression and test the hypothesis that the 3 species have
the same model.
(d) For a input with species = 1, 2, 3, is the model obtained in (c) equivalent
to the 3 separate multivariate regression models obtained in (a)?
2. Consider the data given by CORKDATA.sas in Question 1 of Assignment 1:
N E S W N E S W
72 66 76 77 91 79 100 75
60 53 66 63 56 68 47 50
56 57 64 58 79 65 70 61
41 29 36 38 81 80 68 58
32 32 35 36 78 55 67 60
30 35 34 26 46 38 37 38
39 39 31 27 39 35 34 37
42 43 31 25 32 30 30 32
37 40 31 25 60 50 67 54
33 29 27 36 35 37 48 39
32 30 34 28 39 36 39 31
63 45 74 63 50 34 37 40
54 46 60 52 43 37 39 50
47 51 52 45 48 54 57 43
(a) Find the principal components based on the covariance matrix. Interpret
them if possible.
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(b) How many principal components would you suggest to retain in
summarizing the total variability of the data? Give reasons, including
results of statistical tests if appropriate.
(c) Repeat (a) and (b) using the correlation matrix instead.
(d) Compare and comment on the two sets of results for covariance and
correlation matrices. Recommend a set of results and explain why.
3. Annual financial data are collected for bankrupt firms approximately 2 years
prior to their bankruptcy and for financially sound firms at about the same
time. The data on four variables, X1 = (cash flow) / (total debt), X2 = (net
income) / (total assets), X3 = (current assets) / (current liabilities) and X4 =
(current assets) / (net sales) are stored in the file FINANICALDATA.TXT. In
addition, a categorical variable Y identifies whether a firm is bankrupt (Y = 1)
or non-bankrupt (Y = 2).
(a) Apply the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to classify the firms into
a bankrupt group and a non-bankrupt group. Calculate the error rates
with cross-validation and report the results.
(b) Apply quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) to classify the firms,
perform cross-validation and report the results.
4. The distances between pairs of five items are as follows:
Cluster the five items using the single linkage, complete linkage, and average
linkage hierarchical methods. Compare the results.
5. Consider multivariate linear regression with the following data structure:
individual Y1 Y2 · · · Yp X1 X2 · · · Xk
1 y11 y12 · · · y1p x11 x12 · · · x1k
2 y21 y22 · · · y2p x21 x22 x2k
n yn1 yn2 · · · ynp xn1 xn2 · · · xnk
The regression model is given as
Y
n×p
= Xn×k
B
k×p
+ Un×p
,
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where the matrices Y , X, B and U are given as follows:
Here for i = 1, . . . , n, the vector of errors of observation i is εi =
(εj1, εj2, · · · , εjp)
′
, and we assume that ε1, . . . , εn
iid∼ Np(0, Σ).
(a) We know that the maximum likelihood estimator of B and Σ are:
Bˆ = (X′X)
−1 X′Y , Σˆ =
1
n
Uˆ
′
Uˆ , where Uˆ = Y − XBˆ .
Calculate the maximum value of the log-likelihood function
ℓ(B, Σ) = −
np
2
log(2π) −
n
2
log |Σ| − 1
2
tr[(Y − XB)Σ
−1
(Y − XB)
′
]
= −
np
2
log(2π) −
n
2
log |Σ| − 1
2
tr[Σ
−1
(Y − XB)
′
(Y − XB)].
(b) Plug in the definition of Bˆ and express Uˆ as a matrix calculated based
on X and Y . Calculate X⊤Uˆ and Uˆ
⊤
X.
(c) Prove the identity
(Y − XB)
′
(Y − XB)
= (Y − XBˆ )
′
(Y − XBˆ ) + (XBˆ − XB)
′
(XBˆ − XB).
Hint: by definition, Y − XBˆ = Uˆ , and we have
(Y − XB)
′
(Y − XB)
= (Y − XBˆ + XBˆ − XB)
′
(Y − XBˆ + XBˆ − XB).
6. Consider p random variables X1, . . . , Xp. Suppose that Y1, . . . , Yp are the first
to the p-th population principle components of X1, . . . , Xp.
(a) What are the population principle components of the random variables
Y1, . . . , Yp? Why?
(b) Suppose that the population covariance matrix of (X1, . . . , Xp)
′
is Σ and
its eigenvalue decomposition is
Σ =
p
X
i=1
λiαiα
′
i
,
where α1, . . . , αp are orthogonal unit vectors. What is the covariance
bewteen X1 and Y1?
7. Consider a k-class classification task with ni observations in class i, i =
1, . . . , k. Define matrices
H =
k
X
j=1
nj (x¯·j − x¯··)(x¯·j − x¯··)
′
, E =
k
X
j=1
nj
X
i=1
(xij − x¯·j )(xij − x¯·j )
′
, S =
n
E
− k
.
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In LDA for multiclass classification, we consider the eigenvalue decompostion
E
−1Hai = ℓiai
, i = 1, . . . , s, s = rank(E
−1H).
where a1, . . . , as satisfy a
′
iSai = 1 and a
′
iSai
′ = 0 for all i, i′ = 1, . . . , s, i = i
′
.
(a) While the above definitions were introduced in the case of multiclass
classification (k > 2), we may check to what extent these definitions are
reasonable in binary classification (k = 2). In this case, we have the
sample means within class 1 and class 2 as x¯·1 and x¯·2 respectively. Can
you calculate the overall mean x¯·· based on x¯·1, x¯·2 and n1, n2?
(b) For k = 2, express H as a matrix calculated based on x¯·1, x¯·2 and n1, n2.
(c) What is the rank of the matrix H when k = 2?
(d) We mentioned in the lecture that we can simply use one Fisher
discriminant function for binary classification. Can we adopt the
definitions above to define more than one Fisher discriminant functions
for binary classification? Why?
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