文档介绍：Information Science and Statistics
Series Editors:
M. Jordan
R. Nowak
B. Sch¨olkopf
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Information Theoretic
Learning
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University of Florida
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& Biomedical Engineering
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Series Editors
Michael Jordan Bernhard Sch¨olkopf
Division puter Science Max Planck Institute
and Department of Statistics for Biological ics
University of California, Berkeley Spemannstrasse 38
Berkeley, CA 94720 72076 T¨ubingen
USA Germany
Robert Nowak
Department of Electrical
puter Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706
ISSN 1613-9011
ISBN 978-1-4419-1569-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1570-2
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