Pattern Classification (2nd Edition, 2001) –
Solutions Manual – by Duda
What is division? - answer-the process of breaking a whole into parts
What is classification? - answer-the process of sorting individual items into categories
How can we make sense of seemingly random ideas? - answer-through classification and
division
What can we do by breaking a large group into smaller categories and assigning individual items
to larger categories? - answer-identify relationships between a whole and its parts and
relationships among the parts themselves
In countless practical situations, what can classification and division do? - answer-bring order to
chaos
True or false: classification and division invariably occur together and are the same occasion? -
answer-false; they are two separate occasions
What is a principle of classification? - answer-the quality your items have in common
True or false: the principle of classification you choose would depend on how you choose to
approach the members of a large and diverse group? - answer-true
True or false: division is the opposite of classification? - answer-true
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Solutions Manual – by Duda
What is division? - answer-the process of breaking a whole into parts
What is classification? - answer-the process of sorting individual items into categories
How can we make sense of seemingly random ideas? - answer-through classification and
division
What can we do by breaking a large group into smaller categories and assigning individual items
to larger categories? - answer-identify relationships between a whole and its parts and
relationships among the parts themselves
In countless practical situations, what can classification and division do? - answer-bring order to
chaos
True or false: classification and division invariably occur together and are the same occasion? -
answer-false; they are two separate occasions
What is a principle of classification? - answer-the quality your items have in common
True or false: the principle of classification you choose would depend on how you choose to
approach the members of a large and diverse group? - answer-true
True or false: division is the opposite of classification? - answer-true
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