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A good statistics for machine learning textbook?
I keep running up against terms like "Dirchlet distribution", "conjugate prior", etc. in the Bayes Net papers I'm reading. I've been looking stuff up on wikipedia, but an organized approach would be useful to me. Any help?
- papaf 17y agoMackay has an excellent (and very readable) book on-line which, despite its title, contains quite a lot of Bayesian statistics: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html If that doesn't go deep enough into the statistical aspects I found the Gelman book hard going but very good: http://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Analysis-Second-Statistical-Science/dp/158488388X http://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Analysis-Second-Statistical-S...
- alextp 17y agoElements of Statistical Learning Theory covers most of that, I think, and some more.
- leecho0 17y agoI'm curious what you use ml for.