Model-Based Machine Learning

This book is unusual for a machine learning text book in that the authors do not review dozens of different algorithms. Instead they introduce all of the key ideas through a series of case studies involving real-world applications. Case studies play a central role because it is only in the context of applications that it makes sense to discuss modelling assumptions. Each chapter therefore introduces one case study which is drawn from a real-world application that has been solved using a model-based approach.