All ebooks in the collection "Information Science and Statistics" - Springer

Novelty, Information and Surprise

Günther Palm

This revised edition offers an approach to information theory that is more general than the classical approach of Shannon. Classically, information is defined for an alphabet of symbols or for a set of mutually exclusive propositions (a partition of the probability...

Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams: A Guide to Construction and Analysis

Uffe B. Kjærulff , Anders L. Madsen

Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams: A Guide to Construction and Analysis, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive guide for practitioners who wish to understand, construct, and analyze intelligent systems for decision support based on probabilistic networks. This...

Computational Methods in Biometric Authentication

Michael E. Schuckers

Biometrics, the science of using physical traits to identify individuals, is playing an increasing role in our security-conscious society and across the globe. Biometric authentication, or bioauthentication, systems are being used to secure everything from amusement...

Information Theoretic Learning

Jose C. Principe

Support Vector Machines

Andreas Christmann , Ingo Steinwart

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. David Hilbert The goal of this book is to explain the principles that made support vector machines (SVMs) a successful modeling and prediction tool for a...

Probabilistic Conditional Independence Structures

Milan Studeny

Probabilistic Conditional Independence Structures provides the mathematical description of probabilistic conditional independence structures; the author uses non-graphical methods of their description, and takes an algebraic approach. The monograph presents the...

Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length

C.S. Wallace

Mythanksareduetothemanypeoplewhohaveassistedintheworkreported here and in the preparation of this book. The work is incomplete and this account of it rougher than it might be. Such virtues as it has owe much to others; the faults are all mine....