An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R

The authors Hastie and Tibshirani are legends in the stats world, creating GAM and LASSO respectively. Their other textbook "The Elements of Statistical Learning" is geared for PhD students. This textbook is very accessible, with figures and lots of sample code. The target audience is any aspiring data scientist who can learn to code and wants to actually understand what the code/models are doing (but doesn't need to be able to derive all the original math by hand). In addition to teaching different analyses, this book does a great job on explaining key statistical analysis concepts, like bias vs variance tradeoff, k-fold cross-validation, bootstrapping, finding the right balance in model complexity for your dataset, etc. There is both an R and a Python edition. The 2nd edition includes 3 new chapters on survival analysis, multiple testing, and neural nets. There is a free Stanford MOOC that uses this text.

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wonderfull book, I am currently studying a master in Bionformatics and needed to brush my forgotten lessons of Statistics. Amazed how the authors are able to explain the most advanced and difficult concepts skiping the mathematics below, for example the subject of hyperplanes is so amazingly exposed that it should be given as an role model of teaching and turning a difficult subject into an accesible one.I recommed this book with all my heart¡¡

The two professors in the video are the cutest old guy I have ever met!!!

I ordered a new book, but received a used book in bad shape instead!