Computer Manual in MATLAB to Accompany Pattern Classification, Second Edition

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Summary: Excellent toolbox to learn & use.
Review: I was one of the early access recipient of this toolbox and found it extremely useful. It basically has a whole bunch of cleaning and classification algos.

The toolbox also allows one to extend its use with new algorithms, tweaks or to use our dataset. As long as its formatted in the same fashion.

I would strongly recommend this toolbox, if you are looking for additional material, another book worth having is Christopher Bishop's book.

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Summary: Valuable supplement to text
Review: This package includes the manual itself and access to the pattern classification toolbox (available via the web). The manual provides a brief introduction to MATLAB and the toolbox, and an appendix (nearly half the length) containing descriptions of the toolbox programs organized by chapter in the Pattern Classification text. It's all very well done, and therefore extremely helpful in learning and applying ideas and algorithms. For people with a programming background but little experience with MATLAB, working with this package (especially the toolbox source code) is enough to get you up and running. Highly recommended.