Standardized Discriminant Coefficients: A Rejoinder

The purpose of this article is to respond to a recent paper by Nordlund and Nagel (1991) who took issue with recommendations made by the present authors regarding the standardization of canonical discriminant coefficients (Mueller & Cozad, 1988). We welcomed their insightful comments and clarifications but are not convinced that their arguments are sufficient to accept the recommendation of using total variance estimates to standardize canonical discriminant function coefficients.