Machine learning is subset of statistics. The standard text in ML, "The Elements of Statistical Learning" is authored by statistics Professors. To be fair, I t

Machine learning is subset of statistics. The standard text in ML, "The Elements of Statistical Learning" is authored by statistics Professors. To be fair, I think "Machine Learning" was an academic marketing term coined by Computer Science departments. It seems that the term "Statistical Learning" was coined in response by Statistics departments. Other similar marketing buzzwords used by various factions (comp sci, stats, actuarial science, industrial engineers, etc) include "Data Science, "Predictive Analytics," "Data Mining," "Knowledge Discovery," "Knowledge Engineering," "Soft Computing," "Artificial Intelligence," "Big Data," "Deep Learning"... To be honest, it's tiresome and troubling to see academic departments invent and adopt overlapping and vacuous marketing buzzwords.