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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Recommendation: Ripley (1996) Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
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Brian D. Ripley's new (1996) book, _Pattern Recognition and Neural
Networks_, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-46086-7, is an
excellent sequel to Bishop, C.M. (1995), _Neural Networks for Pattern
Recognition_. Ripley starts up where Bishop left off, with Bayesian
inference and statistical decision theory, and then covers some of the
same material on NNs as Bishop but at a higher mathematical level.
Ripley also covers a variety of methods that are not discussed, or
discussed only briefly, by Bishop, such as tree-based methods and belief
networks. While Ripley is best appreciated by people with a background
in mathematical statistics, the numerous realistic examples in his book
will be of interest even to beginners in neural nets.

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Warren S. Sarle       SAS Institute Inc.   The opinions expressed here
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