Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules

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. BASIC IDEAS.

Introduction.

CONSTRUCTING RULES.

Fisher's LDA and Other Methods Based on Covariance Matrices.

Nonlinear Methods.

Recursive Partitioning Methods.

Nonparametric Smoothing Methods.

EVALUATING RULES.

Aspects of Evaluation.

Misclassification Rate.

Evaluating Two- Class Rules.

PRACTICAL ISSUES.

Some Special Problems.

Some Illustrative Applications.

Links and Comparisons Between Methods.

References.

Index. "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) 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.