Menurut Johnson and Wichern (1982 :

Menurut Johnson and Wichern (1982 : 470), tujuan dari analisis diskriminan adalah untuk menggambarkan ciri-ciri suatu pengamatan dari bermacam-macam populasi yang diketahui, baik secara grafis maupun aljabar dengan membentuk fungsi diskriminan. Dengan kata lain, analisis diskriminan digunakan untuk mengklasifikasikan individu ke dalam salah satu dari dua kelompok atau lebih.

Hasil (Inggris) 1:

According to Johnson and Wichern (1982:470), the purpose of discriminant analysis is to describe the characteristics of an observation from an assortment of known populations, either graphically or by forming the discriminant function algebra. In other words, the discriminant analysis was used to classify individuals into one of two groups or more.

Hasil (Inggris) 2:

According to Johnson and Wichern (1982: 470), the purpose of discriminant analysis is to describe the characteristics of an observation of a variety of known population, either graphically or algebraically to form the discriminant function. In other words, discriminant analysis is used to classify individuals into one of two or more groups.