Discriminant Analysis and Statistical Pattern Recognition Paperback

Geoffrey McLachlan

Provides a systematic account of the subject area, concentrating on the most recent advances in the field. While the focus is on practical considerations, both theoretical and practical issues are explored. Among the advances covered are: regularized discriminant analysis and bootstrap-based assessment of the performance of a sample-based discriminant rule and extensions of discriminant analysis motivated by problems in statistical image analysis. Includes over 1,200 references in the bibliography.

English

Wiley-Interscience

526

Geoffrey J. McLachlan, PhD, is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author, with David Peel, of Finite Mixture Models(Wiley) and, with Thriyambakam Krishnan, of The EM Algorithm and Extensions(Wiley), among others.

... in my opinion (this book) has been proved .. to be a valuable resource (and) should not be overlooked by any scholarly library. (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, June 2005) "...a worthwhile addition to any statistics library." (International Society of Clinical Biostatistics, Dec 2005)