INTRODUCTION MACHINE LEARNING

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INTRODUCTION . TO. MACHINE LEARNING . AN EARLY DRAFT OF A PROPOSED. TEXTBOOK. Nils J. Nilsson Robotics Laboratory Department of Computer Science Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305. e-mail: November 3, 1998. Copyright 2005. c Nils J. Nilsson This material may not be copied, reproduced, or distributed without the written permission of the copyright holder. ii Contents 1 Preliminaries 1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. What is MACHINE LEARNING ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Wellsprings of MACHINE LEARNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Varieties of MACHINE LEARNING .

to give the reader su cient preparation to make the extensive literature on machine learning accessible. Students in my Stanford courses on machine learning have already made several useful suggestions, as have my colleague, Pat Langley, and my teaching assistants, Ron Kohavi, Karl P eger, Robert Allen, and Lise Getoor. ix

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