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Article: The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Journal of the American Statistical Association
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- June 1, 2004
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction.
Trevor HASTIE, Robert TIBSHIRANI, and Jerome FRIEDMAN. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001. ISBN 0-387-95284-5. viii + 533 pp. $74.95 (H).
In the words of the authors, the goal of this book was to "bring together many of the important new ideas in learning, and explain them in a statistical framework." The authors have been quite successful in achieving this objective, and their work is a welcome addition to the statistics and learning literatures. Statistics has always been interdisciplinary, borrowing ideas from diverse fields and repaying the debt with contributions, both ...