Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

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Sample ChapterPattern Recognition and Machine LearningChristopher M. BishopCopyrightc 2002 2006This is an extract from the book Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning published by Springer (2006).It contains the preface with details about the mathematicalnotation, the complete table of contents of thebook and an unabridged version of chapter 8 on Graphical Models. This document, as well as furtherinformation about the book, is available from: cmbishop/PRMLPrefacePattern Recognition has its origins in engineering, whereas Machine Learning grewout of computer science.

Each exercise has been carefully chosen to reinforce concepts explained in the text or to develop and generalize them in significant ways, and each is graded according to difficulty ranging from (?), which denotes a simple exercise taking a few minutes to complete, through to (???), which denotes a significantly more complex exercise.

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