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Contents<br />

Preface<br />

xiii<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

xvii<br />

Notation and Acronyms<br />

xix<br />

1 Fundamentals of <strong>Pattern</strong> Recognition 1<br />

1.1 Basic Concepts: Class, Feature, and Data Set / 1<br />

1.1.1 <strong>Pattern</strong> Recognition Cycle / 1<br />

1.1.2 Classes and Class Labels / 3<br />

1.1.3 Features / 3<br />

1.1.4 Data Set / 5<br />

1.2 Classifier, Discriminant Functions, and Classification Regions / 5<br />

1.3 Classification Error and Classification Accuracy / 8<br />

1.3.1 Calculation of the Error / 8<br />

1.3.2 Training and Testing Data Sets / 9<br />

1.3.3 Confusion Matrices and Loss Matrices / 10<br />

1.4 Experimental Comparison of <strong>Classifiers</strong> / 12<br />

1.4.1 McNemar and Difference of Proportion Tests / 13<br />

1.4.2 Cochran’s Q Test and F-Test / 16<br />

1.4.3 Cross-Validation Tests / 18<br />

1.4.4 Experiment Design / 22<br />

1.5 Bayes Decision Theory / 25<br />

1.5.1 Probabilistic Framework / 25<br />

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