The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction - by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani et al

The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of statistical learning, focusing on techniques for data mining, inference, and predictive modeling. The book covers a wide range of methods, including linear regression, decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines.