Or, instead of statistics, you could study it's sister field: Machine Learning. Robert Tibsharani provides the following comparative glossary for machine learn

Or, instead of statistics, you could study it's sister field: Machine Learning. Robert Tibsharani provides the following comparative glossary for machine learning and statistics: http://anyall.org/blog/2008/12/statistics-vs-machine-learning-fight/ http://anyall.org/blog/2008/12/statistics-vs-machine-learnin... Glossary Machine learning Statistics network, graphs model weights parameters learning fitting generalization test set performance supervised learning regression/classification unsupervised learning density estimation, clustering large grant = $1,000,000 large grant= $50,000 nice place to have a meeting: nice place to have a meeting: Snowbird, Utah, French Alps Las Vegas in August