Book review: Artificial Intelligence with Statistical Pattern Recognition by Edward A. Patrick and James M. Fattu (Prentice-Hall Inc.)

"Artificial Intelligence with Statistical Pattern Recognition" is a curious and frustrating book. Its authors, Edward A. Patrick and James M. Fattu, repeatedly claim to be making a contribution as fundamental as that of the Rev. Thomas Bayes, yet their level of rhetoric surely obscures the possible contribution of the work. While the authors' intended goal of applying statistical pattern recognition for purposes of inference in complex domains is important, the book has been criticized for being long on hype and short on clarity.