Knowledge discovery with support vector machines /

An easy-to-follow introduction to support vector machines. This book provides an in-depth, easy-to-follow introduction to support vector machines drawing only from minimal, carefully motivated technical and mathematical background material. It begins with a cohesive discussion of machine learning an...

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Main Author: Hamel, Lutz
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2009.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:An easy-to-follow introduction to support vector machines. This book provides an in-depth, easy-to-follow introduction to support vector machines drawing only from minimal, carefully motivated technical and mathematical background material. It begins with a cohesive discussion of machine learning and goes on to cover:. Knowledge discovery environments;. Describing data mathematically;. Linear decision surfaces and functions;. Perceptron learning;. Maximum margin classifiers;. Support vector machines;. Elements of statistical learning theory;. Multi-class classification;. Regression with supporsupport vector machines;. Novelty detection. Complemented with hands-on exercises, algorithm descriptions, and data sets, Knowledge Discovery with Support Vector Machines is an invaluable textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It is also an excellent tutorial on support vector machines for professionals who are pursuing research in machine learning and related areas.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.
ISBN:9780470503041
0470503041
9780470503065
0470503068