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Book Cover for: Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules, David J. Hand

Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules

David J. Hand

The author has written an accessible book presenting the central issues and placing particular emphasis on comparison, performance assessment and how to match method to application. He reviews the different approaches and guides researchers (and the huge class of users and potential users) to suitable classes of techniques. He points the way to more detailed study in "further reading" sections in each chapter.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Publish Date: Mar 6th, 1997
  • Pages: 232
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.69in - 1.14lb
  • EAN: 9780471965831
  • Categories: Bibliographies & IndexesProbability & Statistics - Multivariate Analysis

About the Author

David John Hand OBE FBA is a British statistician. His research interests include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern recognition, the computational statistics and the foundations of statistics.

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Praise for this book

"Evaluation rules are handled and the most important methods to calculate misclassification rates are presented." (Monatshefte fur Mathematik, Vol. 127, No. 2, 1999)

"...an accessible book..." (Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 997, No.22, 2002)