<p>I just put a bounty on <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/308872/calculating-linear-discriminant-analysis-coefficients">Calculating Linear Discriminant Analysis Coefficients</a> before seeing the ML discussions on Meta, so I apologize for not asking about this beforehand. I'll be sure to make a future note of what comes out of this discussion.</p>

<p>The question, in short, is asking about how to manually calculate the coefficients outputted by a machine learning algorithm using matrices. In addition, <code>R</code> code is a substantial part of this, and it looks like the algorithm itself involves a lot of advanced linear algebra which I am not familiar with (singular value decomposition). Therefore, I don't consider this question to be in the category described in <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4994/as-machine-learning-gets-more-programming-oriented-should-we-get-more-programmi">As machine learning gets more programming-oriented, should we get more programming oriented?</a>.</p>

<p>Any thoughts on this?</p>
