Most of the textbooks on machine learning present things in that way (it's really the only way). For example, check out Elements of Statistical Learning (http:

Most of the textbooks on machine learning present things in that way (it's really the only way). For example, check out Elements of Statistical Learning (http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/).