Title: The Elements of Statistical Learning
Product review: The book by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman is a welcomeaddition to the quickly growing area of machine learningand data mining. This is a well written book, laid outnicely with excellent examples by 3 well establishedresearchers in the field. It will be helpful to thosewho are interested in learning about this field, as wellas experts who want to know moreMy only complaint is that although the authors domake an honest attempt to clearly highlight methodsthat are based on their own research,often this distinction becomes cloudy and the readeris left with the impression that the methodsadvocated are often the best and representthe standard in the industry. In fact many oftheir ideas are only heuristic and it is more thanconceivable that these will eventually be superseededwith better methods.A good book, which gets you up to speed in the literaturebut it will only be relevant for a few years.
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