Vladimir Vapnik, The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory
ISBN: 0387987800 | edition 1999 | PDF | 334 pages | 10 mb
ISBN: 0387987800 | edition 1999 | PDF | 334 pages | 10 mb
The aim of this book is to discuss the fundamental ideas which lie behind the statistical theory of learning and generalization. It considers learning as a general problem of function estimation based on empirical data. Omitting proofs and technical details, the author concentrates on discussing the main results of learning theory and their connections to fundamental problems in statistics.