Originally published: Dordrecht; London: Kluwer Academic, 1996.
Preface. 1. Probability Models of Data and Optimal Decision Rules. 2. Violations of Model Assumptions and Basic Notions in Decision Rule Robustness. 3. Robustness of Parametric Decision Rules and Small-Sample Effects. 4. Robustness of Nonparametric Decision Rules and Small-Sample Effects. 5. Decision Rule Robustness under Distortions of Observations to be Classified. 6. Decision Rule Robustness under Distortions of Training Samples. 7. Cluster Analysis under Distorted Model Assumptions. Bibliography. Index. Main Notations and Abbreviations.