Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Springer Series in Statistics)
by Trevor Hastie
Recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information Technology,. With it has come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data...
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