No, non-parametric learning is an unrelated topic, which seeks to estimate probability distributions without using "parametric" (= having known structure) model

No, non-parametric learning is an unrelated topic, which seeks to estimate probability distributions without using "parametric" (= having known structure) models. The canonical example of a non-parametric approach is using histograms, or their generalization, called Parzen Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parzen_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parzen_Windows