Table 5 Some key symbols and their meanings.

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Notations

Descriptions

Notations

Descriptions

d

Dimensionality of the data

\(\textrm{X} \in R^{n \times d}\)

Data matrix

n

Number of samples

\(\mu \in R^{d}\)

Overall sample mean vector

\(n_i\)

Number of samples in class i

\(\mu _{k} \in R^{d}\)

Mean vector of samples in class k

c

Number of classes

\(a \in R^{d}\)

Projection vector

l

Number of selected features

\(\textrm{A} \in R^{d \times l}\)

Projection matrix

\(x_i \in R^{d}\)

The i-th sample

\(\mathrm{S_{w}} \in R^{d \times d}\)

The intra-class scatter matrix

\(\textrm{X}^{(k)} \in R^{n_i \times d}\)

Samples from class k

\(\mathrm{S_{b}} \in R^{d \times d}\)

The inter-class scatter matrix