Author: Markus Svensen and Christopher M. Bishop
This is the solutions manual (web-edition) for the book Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
(PRML; published by Springer in 2006). It contains solutions to the www exercises. This release
was created September 8, 2009. Future releases with corrections to errors will be published on the PRML
web-site (see below).
The authors would like to express their gratitude to the various people who have provided feedback on
earlier releases of this document. In particular, the “Bishop Reading Group”, held in the Visual Geometry
Group at the University of Oxford provided valuable comments and suggestions.
The authors welcome all comments, questions and suggestions about the solutions as well as reports on
(potential) errors in text or formulae in this document; please send any such feedback to