polynomial classifiers

[Paul Kube]

W. E. Blanz at IBM Almaden (San Jose) has worked on polynomial
classifiers and compared their performance to maximum likelihood and
connectionist classifiers.  You might be interested in his IBM reports
RJ 5418 "A comparison of polynomial and parametric gaussian maximum
likelihood classifiers" and RJ 6891 "Comparing a connectionist
trainable classifier with classical decision analysis methods."  The
latter reports, by the way, that a PDP classifier outperforms gaussian
ML and less-than-quartic polynomial classfiers, and scales better besides.

	--Paul kube at ucsd.edu