Title: Not recommended as a learning text
Product review: This is not an introduction to statistical learning theory. It is a collection of overviews of various statistical methods presented rather than explained to the reader. In order to benefit from this book the reader should have a good background in matrix algebra and should already have a theoretical and working knowledge of the topics covered. For detail on the methods and their real world application the reader should also be prepared to consult other references. Two stars because, fairly or not, it does not have the pedagogical value that I expected of it.
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