Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

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Information Science and Statistics Series Editors: M. Jordan J. Kleinberg B. Scho ̈lkopf ...

Information Science and Statistics Akaike and Kitagawa: The Practice of Time Series Analysis. Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Ma ...

Christopher M. Bishop Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning ...

Christopher M. Bishop F.R.Eng. Assistant Director Microsoft Research Ltd Cambridge CB3 0FB, U.K. [email protected] http://r ...

This book is dedicated to my family: Jenna, Mark, and Hugh Total eclipse of the sun, Antalya, Turkey, 29 March 2006. ...

Preface Pattern recognition has its origins in engineering, whereas machine learning grew out of computer science. However, thes ...

viii PREFACE Exercises The exercises that appear at the end of every chapter form an important com- ponent of the book. Each exe ...

PREFACE ix Many people have helped by proofreading draft material and providing com- ments and suggestions, including Shivani Ag ...

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Mathematical notation I have tried to keep the mathematical content of the book to the minimum neces- sary to achieve a proper u ...

xii MATHEMATICAL NOTATION E[x]. If the distribution ofxis conditioned on another variablez, then the corre- sponding conditional ...

Contents Preface vii Mathematical notation xi ...

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1 Introduction Contents xiii 1.1 Example: Polynomial Curve Fitting 1.2 Probability Theory 1.2.1 Probability densities 1.2.2 Exp ...