Pattern Classification. (Book Reviews). (book review)

Technometrics, February, 2002 by Barker, Lawrence

Pattern Classification (2nd ed.), by Richard O. DUDA, Peter E. HART, and David G. STORK, New York: Wiley, 2001, ISBN 0-471-05669-3, xx 654 pp., $110.00.

The meaning of the term "classification" varies with the speaker. For example, Gordon (1999) uses "classification" as a synonym for "clustering." Duda, Hart, and Stork (DHS) use "classification" in the broader sense of "pattern recognition." DHS define "pattern recognition" as "the act of taking in raw data and taking an action based on the category of the pattern." This includes both supervised learning (e.g., discriminant analysis) and unsupervised learning (e.g., clustering). Presenting such a broad, rapidly developing topic within the covers of a single book is a monumental task. DMS acquit themselves...

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