Pattern Recognition (Theodoridis and Koutroumbas) is listed as
required. However, any of several other books can be used instead. Here
are some:
Fukunaga, K., Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition
Duda, R. and Hart, P., Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis, Wiley,
1974.
Duda, R., Hart, P., and Stork, D., Pattern Classification, Second
Edition, Wiley, 2001.
Breiman, L., Classification and Regression Trees, Wadsworth, 1984.