Statistical Learning Theory: A Tutorial

Inthisarticle,weprovideatutorialoverviewofsomeaspectsofstatisticallearningtheory,whichalsogoesbyothernamessuchasstatisticalpatternrecognition,nonparametricclassificationandestimation,andsupervisedlearning.Wefocusontheproblemoftwo-classpatternclassificationforvariousreasons.Thisproblemis