Summary (long): pattern recognition comparisons

[Richard Fozzard]

Here are the responses I got for my question regarding comparisons of
connectionist methods with traditional pattern recognition techniques.

I believe Mike Mozer (among others) puts it best: 
"Neural net algorithms just let you
do a lot of the same things that traditional statistical algorithms allow
you to do, but they are more accessible to many people (and perhaps
easier to use)."

Read on for the detailed responses. (Note: this does not include anything
posted to comp.ai.neural-nets, to save on bandwidth)

rich

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