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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition

By Trevor Hastie

This episode explores how the fundamental challenges of statistical learning—from balancing simplicity and complexity to navigating information overload—offer profound insights into our own human quest to understand, predict, and learn from the world.

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“This episode explores how the fundamental challenges of statistical learning—from balancing simplicity and complexity to navigating information overload—offer profound insights into our own human quest to understand, predict, and learn from the world.”

— Trevor Hastie, The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition

What it is about

statistical learning, data mining, prediction

Who it is for

Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of statistical learning, data mining, prediction and better judgment in how they apply it.

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Trevor Hastie brings a credible and useful lens to statistical learning, data mining, prediction, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Trevor Hastie

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