====== Textbook ======

There is no required textbook for this course.

Three optional reference books:

  * C. M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, ISBN 0-387-31073-8.

  * R. O. Duda, P. Hart and D. Stork, Pattern Classification (2nd Edition), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-05669-3.

  * K. P. Murphy, Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspectives, The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-01802-9.