An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, and more. Color graphics and real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods presented. Since the goal of this textbook is to facilitate the use of these statistical learning techniques by practitioners in science, industry, and other fields, each chapter contains a tutorial on implementing the analyses and methods presented in R, an extremely popular open source statistical software platform. Two of the authors co-wrote The Elements of Statistical Learning (Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, 2nd edition 2009), a popular reference book for statistics and machine learning researchers. An Introduction to Statistical Learning covers many of the same topics, but at a level accessible to a much broader audience. This book is targeted at statisticians and non-statisticians alike who wish to use cutting-edge statistical learning techniques to analyze their data. The text assumes only a previous course in linear regression and no knowledge of matrix algebra.

本书精心策划了三个虚拟项目，将数据科学家必需的专业技能融合其中，教会读者如何将数据存储到计算机内存中，如何在必要的时候转换内存中的数据值，如何用R编写自己的程序并将其用于数据分析和模拟运行。读者将跟随世界一流的RStudio培训师掌握宝贵的编程技能，并借助这些技能成为优秀的数据科学家。

本书是写给普通人的因果逻辑入门书，旨在帮助读者培养严谨的思维方式，在不借助任何专业知识的前提下，准确定位问题。主要内容包括：认识原因，对原因的理解和运用，如何只通过观察找到原因，大数据集与原因的关系，因果关系相关实验，如何利用因果关系来制定有效的干预措施，研究因果关系的意义。 本书适合所有对探究事件真相感兴趣的读者，无须统计学等专业背景。