title: Multivariate analysis in glaucoma. Use of discriminant analysis in predicting glaucomatous visual field damage.
abstract: A discriminant function obtained in 1978 to separate patients with glaucomatous visual field loss from those without visual field loss was shown to have a predictive value in ocular hypertensive persons as to the subsequent development of visual field loss in five years. A prospective discriminant analysis also was carried out to identify those factors that best separate those in whom visual field defects developed from those in whom they did not.
mesh_terms: D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D014794:Visual Fields