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Title:
Discriminant analysis and statistical pattern recognition
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Wiley series in probability and statistics
Publication Information:
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, 2004
ISBN:
9780471691150

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The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists.

"For both applied and theoretical statisticians as well as investigators working in the many areas in which relevant use can be made of discriminant techniques, this monograph provides a modern, comprehensive, and systematic account of discriminant analysis, with the focus on the more recent advances in the field."
-SciTech Book News

". . . a very useful source of information for any researcher working in discriminant analysis and pattern recognition."
-Computational Statistics

Discriminant Analysis and Statistical Pattern Recognition provides a systematic account of the subject. 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. The accompanying bibliography contains over 1,200 references.


Author Notes

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.


Table of Contents

Likelihood-Based Approaches to Discrimination
Discrimination via Normal Models
Distributional Results for Discrimination via Normal Models
Some Practical Aspects and Variants of Normal Theory-Based Discriminant Rules
Data Analytic Considerations with Normal Theory-Based Discriminant Analysis
Parametric Discrimination via Nonnormal Models
Logistic Discrimination
Nonparametric Discrimination
Estimation of Error Rates
Assessing the Reliability of the Estimated Posterior Probabilites of Group Membership
Selection of Feature Variables in Discriminant Analysis
Statistical Image Analysis
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