Statistical foundations, Different Paradigms of Pattern Recognition, Probability estimation, Proximity measures, Feature extraction, Feature extraction, Different approaches to Feature selection, Nearest Neighbour Classifier and variants, Efficient implementations, Prototype selection. Bayes classification. Linear models, regression, logistic regression, neural networks, objective function and learning, backpropagation. Kernel based methods, support vector machines. Dimensionality reduction, principal component analysis, reconstruction, discriminant analysis. Clustering, K-means algorithm, distance measure, objective function, initialization. Anomaly detection, recommender systems. Scaling of algorithms