An introduction to statistical learning : with applications in R / Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani.
Contributor(s): James, Gareth [author.] | Witten, Daniela [author.]
| Hastie, Trevor [author.] | Tibshirani, Robert [author.].
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BookSeries: Springer texts in statistics: 103.Publisher: New York : Springer, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xiv, 426 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781461471370 (hardback).Other title: Statistical learning.Subject(s): Mathematical statistics | Mathematical models | Mathematical statistics -- Problems, exercises, etc | R (Computer program language) | StatisticsDDC classification: 519.5 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 519.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00213584 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, and more. Color graphics and real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods presented. Since the goal of this textbook is to facilitate the use of these statistical learning techniques by practitioners in science, industry, and other fields, each chapter contains a tutorial on implementing the analyses and methods presented in R, an extremely popular open source statistical software platform.
Two of the authors co-wrote The Elements of Statistical Learning (Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, 2nd edition 2009), a popular reference book for statistics and machine learning researchers.An Introduction to Statistical Learning covers many of the same topics, but at a level accessible to a much broader audience. This book is targeted at statisticians and non-statisticians alike who wish to use cutting-edge statistical learning techniques to analyze their data. The text assumes only a previous course in linear regression and no knowledge of matrix algebra.
Includes index.
Introduction -- Statistical learning -- Linear regression -- Classification -- Resampling methods -- Linear model selection and regularization -- Moving beyond linearity -- Tree-based methods -- Support vector machines -- Unsupervised learning.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Gareth James is a professor of data sciences and operations at the University of Southern California. He has published an extensive body of methodological work in the domain of statistical learning with particular emphasis on high-dimensional and functional data. The conceptual framework for this book grew out of his MBA elective courses in this area.
Daniela Witten is an associate professor of statistics and biostatistics at the University of Washington. Her research focuses largely on statistical machine learning in the high-dimensional setting, with an emphasis on unsupervised learning.
Trevor Hastie andRobert Tibshirani are professors of statistics at Stanford University, and are co-authors of the successful textbook Elements of Statistical Learning. Hastie and Tibshirani developed generalized additive models and wrote a popular book of that title. Hastie co-developed much of the statistical modeling software and environment in R/S-PLUS and invented principal curves and surfaces. Tibshirani proposed the lasso and is co-author of the very successful An Introduction to the Bootstrap.