In the past cou­ple of days, the authors of sev­eral blogs have noted that the won­der­ful book The Ele­ments of Sta­tis­ti­cal Learn­ing: Data Min­ing, Infer­ence, and Pre­dic­tion by Hastie, Tib­shi­rani and Fried­man (2nd ed., 2009) is now avail­able for free down­load in pdf for­mat.

Of course, it is also nice to have a hard copy. Click the image to pur­chase from Amazon.

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