A probabilistic theory of pattern recognition /

Pattern recognition presents one of the most significant challenges for scientists and engineers, and many different approaches have been proposed. The aim of this book is to provide a self-contained account of probabilistic analysis of these approaches. The book includes a discussion of distance me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Devroye, Luc
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Györfi, László, Lugosi, Gábor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [1996]
Series:Applications of mathematics ; 31.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Bayes Error
  • Inequalities and alternate distance measures
  • Linear discrimination
  • Nearest neighbor rules
  • Consistency
  • Slow rates of convergence
  • Error estimation
  • The regular histogram rule
  • Kernel rules
  • Consistency of the k-nearest neighbor rule
  • Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory
  • Combinatorial aspects of Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory
  • Lower bounds for empirical classifier selection
  • The maximum likelihood principle
  • Parametric classification
  • Generalized linear discrimination
  • Complexity regularization
  • Condensed and edited nearest neighbor rules
  • Tree classifiers
  • Data-dependent partitioning
  • Splitting the data
  • The resubstitution estimate
  • Deleted estimates of the error probability
  • Automatic kernel rules
  • Automatic nearest neighbor rules
  • Hypercubes and discrete spaces
  • Epsilon entropy and totally bounded sets
  • Uniform laws of large numbers
  • Neural networks
  • Other error estimates
  • Feature extraction.