Use Of Discriminant Analysis In Classification Of Drug Peddlers And Non-Drug Peddlers In Kwara State.

摘要

National Drug and Enforcement Agency has been using oral evidence in the past rather than a statistical tool to classify drug offenders into Drug Peddlers and Non-Drug Peddlers.The aim of this research is to construct a Discriminant Function that can be used to classify persons for drug related offences into two groups namely: Drug Peddlers and Non-Drug Peddlers. The following variables were used: Type of Exhibit, Age, Weight of Exhibit and Gender.A discriminant function was obtained and used for classifying drug offenders into groups. The result shows that Type of Exhibit, Age, Weight of Exhibit and Gender contribute to the discriminant function. The misclassification rate obtained was 28.2%