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Within-class Scatter Matrix

Within-class scatter matrixIt is used to represent the distribution of sample points around the mean, and its definition is as follows:

Suppose there are categories, , class sample set , The divergence matrix of the class is defined as:

Among them, is the covariance matrix of the class .

The total intra-class scatter matrix is:

Then: trace is the average measure of feature variance of all classes.

Regarding the results of feature selection and extraction, the smaller the product of the within-class scatter matrix, the better.

Related words: between-class scatter matrix