Funny how the author pushes the language to extremes: - title: a "brief" introduction (it's 206 pages!) - chapter 1: a "gentle" introduction through Linea

Funny how the author pushes the language to extremes: - title: a "brief" introduction (it's 206 pages!) - chapter 1: a "gentle" introduction through Linear Regression, where gentle means that the relationships and equations are provided in all their notational beauty, but without the motivation or meaning part.