Textbook information

Textbook information#

The course largely follows ISL-P, which is available at the link below. Note that there is also a version of the textbook in R, however we will be using Python in this course.

Course Textbook

An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in Python.

James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani, and Taylor.

Available as a FREE download at statlearning.com.

Some additional reading for those interested, although we will not have any assignments from this book:

Additional Reading

The Elements of Statistical Learning.

Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman.

Available as a FREE download at www-stat.stanford.edu/ElemStatLearn.