Announcing the recent publication of the Wiley monograph ... Title: FINITE MIXTURE MODELS Authors: Geoff McLachlan and David Peel This book gives an up-to-date, comprehensive account of the major issues in modeling via finite mixture distributions. Links statistical literature with the machine learning and pattern recognition literature in the related areas. Considers how the EM algorithm can be scaled to handle the fitting of mixture models to very large databases, as in data mining applications. Provides more than 800 references -- 40% published since 1995. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~gjm