Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

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Christopher M. BishopPattern Recognition andMachine LearningChristopher M. Bishop DirectorMicrosoft Research LtdCambridge CB3 0FB, cmbishopSeries EditorsMichael JordanDepartment of ComputerScience and Departmentof StatisticsUniversity of California,BerkeleyBerkeley, CA 94720USAProfessor Jon KleinbergDepartment of ComputerScienceCornell UniversityIthaca, NY 14853USABernhard Scho lkopfMax Planck Institute forBiological CyberneticsSpemannstrasse 3872076 Tu bingenGermanyLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2006922522ISBN-10: 0-387-31073-8ISBN-13: 978-0387-31073-2Printed on acid-free paper. 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, LLCAll rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher(Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connectionwith reviews or scholarly analysis.

Because this book has broad scope, it is impossible to provide a complete list of ... The exercises that appear at the end of every chapter form an important com-ponent of the book. Each exercise has been carefully chosen to reinforce concepts explained in the text or to develop and generalize them in significant ways, and each ...

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