The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and PredictionDuring the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates. Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman are professors of statistics at Stanford University. They are prominent researchers in this area: Hastie and Tibshirani developed generalized additive models and wrote a popular book of that title. Hastie co-developed much of the statistical modeling software and environment in R/S-PLUS and invented principal curves and surfaces. Tibshirani proposed the lasso and is co-author of the very successful An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Friedman is the co-inventor of many data-mining tools including CART, MARS, projection pursuit and gradient boosting. |
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... .2 Partial Dependence Plots 10.14 Illustrations 10.14.1 California Housing . 10.14.2 Demographics Data • Bibliographic Notes Exercises 11 Neural Networks 11.1 Introduction . 11.2 Projection Pursuit Regression Contents xiii.
... Projection Pursuit Regression 11.3 Neural Networks 11.4 Fitting Neural Networks 11.5 Some Issues in Training Neural Networks 11.5.1 Starting Values 11.5.2 Overfitting • 11.5.3 Scaling of the Inputs 11.5.4 Number of Hidden Units and ...
... 14.5 Principal Components , Curves and Surfaces 14.5.1 Principal Components 14.5.2 Principal Curves and Surfaces 468 470 472 480 485 • 485 491 • 14.6 Independent Component Analysis and Exploratory Projection Pursuit . 14.6.1 Contents XV.
... Projection Pursuit . 14.6.1 Latent Variables and Factor Analysis 14.6.2 Independent Component Analysis 14.6.3 Exploratory Projection Pursuit 14.6.4 A Different Approach to ICA 14.7 Multidimensional Scaling Bibliographic Notes Exercises ...
... Projection pursuit and neural network models consist of sums of non- linearly transformed linear models . 2.4 Statistical Decision Theory In this section we develop a small amount of theory that provides a frame- work for developing ...
Contents
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Bibliographic Notes | 75 |
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Bibliographic Notes | 295 |
Support Vector Machines | 350 |
Bibliographic Notes | 367 |
Flexible Discriminants | 371 |
Bibliographic Notes | 406 |
Prototype Methods and NearestNeighbors | 410 |
Unsupervised Learning | 437 |
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Bibliographic Notes | 155 |
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Kernel Methods | 165 |
Additive Models Trees and Related Methods | 257 |
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Bibliographic Notes | 504 |
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Author Index | 523 |
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