For applications to machine learning, I strongly recommend Elements of Statistical Learning. The text is eye-opening. A PDF is freely available on Rob Tibshiran

For applications to machine learning, I strongly recommend Elements of Statistical Learning. The text is eye-opening. A PDF is freely available on Rob Tibshirani's website: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/