Biography
Andrew Webb spent his professional career inside the UK defence-research community, where high-dimensional sensor data demanded the same statistical machinery later popularised as "machine learning." Statistical Pattern Recognition (Edward Arnold, late 1990s) distilled Bayes classifiers, kernel density estimates, discriminant and logistic models, neural networks and clustering for MSc-level engineers—emphasising error rates, feature selection and the curse of dimensionality long before deep learning dominated the vocabulary.
Published writings & editorial work
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Authored / principal writer
- Statistical Pattern Recognition
Edward Arnold
Author
Andrew Webb's graduate-level text on statistical pattern recognition, covering density estimation, linear and non-linear discriminant analysis, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and the evaluation of classifiers. The book set out the statistical foundations on which much o…