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An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods
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Author: Nello Cristianini, John Shawe-Taylor
List Price: $53.00
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ISBN: 0521780195
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (23 March, 2000)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 6,983
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Excellent book
I just happened to read the reviews on the book on Support vector machines by Nello Cristianini and John Shawe-Taylor. Could not resist adding my own comments about the book. Excellent book. I plan to use the book for the course on "Fundamentals of computer aided engineering" that I teach at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).
Rating: 5 out of 5
This is it !
The book is just great. The appendix on algorithms could have more explanations. Also the application section is a short. It would have been more usuful to take one of these applicaitons and describe it in details. But all in all, the book is excellent.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Cogent and Coherent
I used to believe that the thicker the book, the greater the chance that I'd be able to learn something from it. This book by Cristianini and Shawe-Taylor is the complete opposite.The book is clear and concise in it's development of the theory of SVMs, and is thorough in going through all relevant background material. Particularly useful is the section optimisation which is usually missing from statistical and computer science backgrounds. Beware that this book is not for the mathematically shy. If you want to learn about SVMs and don't mind getting your teeth stuck into some serious (applied) maths, then this book is for you.
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