A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability)

Devroye, Luc; Györfi, Laszlo; Lugosi, Gabor

ISBN 10: 0387946187 / ISBN 13: 9780387946184

Editore: Springer, 1996

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• Titolo: A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability)
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387946187
• ISBN 13: 9780387946184
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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 measures, nonparametric methods based on kernels or nearest neighbors, Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory, epsilon entropy, parametric classification, error estimation, free classifiers, and neural networks. Wherever possible, distribution-free properties and inequalities are derived. A substantial portion of the results or the analysis is new. Over 430 problems and exercises complement the material.

Contenuti

Preface * 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 * Appendix * Notation * References * Index