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Introduction to Statistical

Pattern

Recogni-tion

Second Edition

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Keinosuke Fukunaga

Introduction to

Stas-tical

Pattern

Recognit ion

Second Edition

This completely revised second edition

presents an introduction to statisticalpat-

tern recognition. Pattern recognition in

general covers a wide range of problems: it

is applied to engineeringproblems, such as

character readers and wave form analysis,

as well as to brain modeling in biology and

psychology. Statistical decision and estima-

tion, which are the main subjects of this

book, are regarded as fimdamental to the

study of pattern recognition. This book

is appropriate as a text for introductory

courses in pattern recognition and as a ref-

erence book for people who work in the

field. Each chapter also contains computer

projects as well as exercises.

Introduction to Statistical

Pattern Recognition

Second Edition