% Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox, Vojtech Franc, Vaclav Hlavac
% (c) Czech Technical University Prague, http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz
% Written Vojtech Franc (diploma thesis) 26.02.2000
% Modifications
% 24. 6.00 V. Hlavac Text polished.
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0. Contents===========0. Contents1. Introduction2. Requirements3. Installation4. Quick Start5. How to start ?1. Introduction====================This toolbox implements a selection of major statistical patternmethods as described in the monograph Schlesinger M.I., HlavacV. Ten lectures from the statistical and syntactic patternrecognition (in Czech), Czech Technical University PublishingHouse, September 1999 (further referred as SH10). Englishversion should appear in Kluwer Academic Publishers. The basicidea of the toolbox was sketched by M.I. Schlesinger and V.Hlavac in June 1999. The design of the toolbox andimplementation is by V. Franc who did it as his diploma work atthe Czech Technical University Praha, Czech Republic (defendedFebruary 2000). V. Franc continues developing the toolbox as heis the PhD student of the Center for Machine Perception, cf.http://cmp.felk.cvut.czThe aim of the toolbox is to(a) Provide tools for experimenting with various statisticalpattern recognition methods.(b) Aid the reader of the above mentioned rather theoreticalbook the practical skills.(c) Provides the teachers of pattern recognition courses thetool they can use with their students in laboratory exercises.This software can be used freely for academic, non-profitpurposes. If you intend to use it for commercial development,please, contact us.2. Requirements================- Matlab, version 5.2 and higher.- Optimization Toolbox (MathWorks).- Statistic Toolbox (MathWorks).3. Installation================The "stprtool" directory is a root directory of the statisticalpattern recognition toolbox.- Create a directory of your choice and copy the toolbox there.- The path to toolbox directories has to be set before using  the toolbox. This can be done automatically each time Matlab  is initiated or manually. We describe the first option here  and the second is described in the next section.- Windows: Copy file "\stprtool\setpath.m" to your "..\matlab\toolbox\local\"  directory.  Linux:  Copy file "\stprtool\setpath.m" to "\your_home\matlab\"- Add line        setpath('path'); to your "startup.m" file. The argument path is the  name of the toolbox root directory. For example, if the toolbox is located in your root directory on disk c then use        setpath('c:\stprtool');note: The "startup.m" file is located in     Windows: "..\matlab\toolbox\local\" directory,     Linux: "\your_home\matlab\" directory if it does not exist you have to create it.4. Start toolbox with manual set of the path===============- Run Matlab- Change directory to the toolbox root. Use Matlab command "cd",  for example        cd c:\stprtool- Type        setpath5. How to start ?====================After the toolbox is installed, run Matlab and you can startusing the toolbox. At first, try to type   help stprtooland you will get a list of available demo programs. You can also read html-documentation in "/stprtool/doc/html/".If you have any comments or suggestions then sendme an email at xfrancv@cmp.felk.cvut.cz