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From: dclausi@monet.uwaterloo.ca (David Clausi)
Subject: Re: Urgent Need Pattern Recognition Book
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In article <wdr.1.2F1E51D5@rkw.rau.ac.za>,  <wdr@rkw.rau.ac.za> wrote:
>In article <JEANLAUR.95Jan17142815@lynx.cat.syr.edu> jeanlaur@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Pierre Jean-Laurent) writes:
>>From: jeanlaur@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Pierre Jean-Laurent)
>>Subject: Urgent Need Pattern Recognition Book
>>Date: 17 Jan 1995 19:28:15 GMT
>
>
>>Hi,
>
>>I am looking for the name of a good INTRODUCTORY textbook on PATTERN
>>RECOGNITION. It should have sample problems to solve and should still be in
>>print, so it must be recent. An accompaning solution manual though optional
>>is also desired. The name of the publishing company would be very useful.
>
>>Please forward any suggestions to: jeanlaur@mailbox.syr.edu
>
>>Thank you in advance,
>>Pierre Jean-Laurent
>
>Anybody with suggestions or advice, please respond to the newsgroup as well or 
>send mail to wdr@rkw.rau.ac.za, because I am also very interested in such a 
>book.
>
>Thank you   :-)

You might want to try the following (I don't have all the information
on hand):

Duda and Hart, Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis

The book was originally published about 20 years ago, but has a lot
of practical, introductory information dealing with pattern recognition
(from a statistical standpoint).

Dave
-- 
Dave Clausi
Department of Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo
dclausi@monet.uwaterloo.ca
