Statistical Pattern Recognition (2nd ed.).(Book Review)

From: Technometrics | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

By Andrew WEBB, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-470-84513-9, xviii + 496 pp., $94.00.

This text gives an introduction to statistical pattern recognition methods and theory. The author states that it "is an attempt to provide a concise volume containing descriptions of many of the most useful of today's pattern processing techniques, including many of the recent advances in nonparametric approaches to discrimination developed in the statistics literature and elsewhere." The book's strength lies in its breadth of subject matter. The book does a good job covering material ...

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