James A. Mosher Byron K. Williams Kimberly Titus 1984 A method for evaluating the classification table from a discriminant analysis is described. The statistic, kappa, is useful to ecologists in that it removes the effects of chance. It is useful even with equal group sample sizes although the need for a chance-corrected measure of prediction becomes greater with more dissimilar group sample sizes. Examples are presented. application/pdf 10.2307/2425535 en University of Notre Dame Chance-corrected classification for use in discriminant analysis: Ecological applications article