Statistical pattern recognition is a very active area of study and research, which has seen many advances in recent years. New and emerging applications - such as data mining, web searching, multimedia data retrieval, face recognition, and cursive handwriting recognition - require robust and efficient pattern recognition techniques. Statistical decision making and estimation are regarded as fundamental to the study of pattern recognition.Statistical Pattern Recognition, Second Edition has been fully updated with new methods, applications and references.

统计模式识别是一个非常活跃的研究领域，近年来取得了许多进展。新的和新兴的应用程序——如数据挖掘、web搜索、多媒体数据检索、人脸识别和草书手写识别——需要健壮和高效的模式识别技术。统计决策和估计被视为模式识别研究的基础。统计模式识别，第二版已经用新的方法、应用和参考文献进行了全面更新。