books.google.com - Pattern recognition has long been studied in relation to many different (and mainly unrelated) applications, such as remote sensing, computer vision, space research, and medical imaging. In this book Professor Ripley brings together two crucial ideas in pattern recognition; statistical methods and machine...http://books.google.com/books/about/Pattern_Recognition_and_Neural_Networks.html?id=m12UR8QmLqoC&q=optimal&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePattern Recognition and Neural Networks