लेखक: Geoffrey McLachlan

Geoffrey J. Mc Lachlan, Ph D, DSc, is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Queensland, Australia. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Australian Mathematical Society, he has published extensively on his research interests, which include cluster and discriminant analyses, image analysis, machine learning, neural networks, and pattern recognition. Dr. Mc Lachlan is the author or coauthor of Analyzing Microarray Gene Expression Data, Finite Mixture Models, and Discriminant Analysis and Statistical Pattern Recognition, all published by Wiley. Thriyambakam Krishnan, Ph D, is Chief Statistical Architect, SYSTAT Software at Cranes Software International Limited in Bangalore, India. Dr. Krishnan has over forty-five years of research, teaching, consulting, and software development experience at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). His research interests include biostatistics, image analysis, pattern recognition, psychometry, and the EM algorithm.