TY - BOOK AU - James,Gareth AU - Witten,Daniela AU - Hastie,Trevor AU - Tibshirani,Robert TI - An introduction to statistical learning: with applications in R T2 - Springer texts in statistics, SN - 9781461471370 U1 - 519.5 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Statistics N1 - Includes index; Ch. 1 Introduction -- Ch. 2 Statistical learning -- Ch. 3 Linear regression -- Ch. 4 Classification -- Ch. 5 Resampling methods -- Ch. 6 Linear model selection and regularization -- Ch. 7 Moving beyond linearity -- Ch. 8 Tree-based methods -- Ch. 9 Support vector machines -- Ch. 10 Unsupervised learning N2 - 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 ER -