A discriminant analysis approach to the identification of human chromosomes.

The identification of the various types of the 46 chromosomes in a normal human cell is formulated as a discriminant analysis problem. Derived are expressions for posterior probabilities, and rules are given for identification where the number of chromosomes of each type is exactly known. The resulting model is applied to experimental data from chromosomes of the Denver B-group. The results using the developed model compare favorably with those of the standard discriminant analysis approach.