References

Texts

*Course Textbook*

An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani (pdf available free online). This book is a shorter and simpler version of the next listed text (below).

Comprehensive Reference Book

The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman. This comprehensive reference presents more material, and at a higher mathematical level, than the preceding text. The full pdf is freely available from the authors at the above link.

*R Programming*

Learning R this solid introductory O'Reilly text is available free online to all Stanford affiliates through the Stanford library link provided here. A useful reference card for R commands is here.

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