NETLAB: Algorithms for Pattern Recognition

This book would be valuable if for no other reason than that it is the only Netlab book available at the moment, but it is also helpful in that it follows Christopher Bishop's "Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition" roughly, and provides details for implementing in Netlab what Bishop descibes generally in his book.I only give four stars because the index is terrible and there is no list of illustrations, which sound like minor complaints but are pretty annoying for a book that you plan on referencing often. Having said that, those problems could be easily fixed by a subsequent edition.