I personally love this for statistical inference: http://www.springer.com/cn/book/9780387402727 http://www.springer.com/cn/book/9780387402727 and this for stat

I personally love this for statistical inference: http://www.springer.com/cn/book/9780387402727 http://www.springer.com/cn/book/9780387402727 and this for statistical ML: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/