Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification

D. Michie, D. J. Spiegelhalter, C. C. Taylor9780131063600, 013106360X

The aim of this book is to provide an up-to-date review of different approaches to classification, compare their performance on a wide range of challenging data-sets, and draw conclusions on their applicability to realistic industrial problems. Before describing the contents, we first need to define what we mean by classification, give some background to the different perspectives on the task, and introduce the European Community StatLog project whose results form the basis for this book.