Statistics and probability are the foundation of Machine Learning. Information Theory and Machine Learning are practically homomorphic(1,2). You can't really

Statistics and probability are the foundation of Machine Learning. Information Theory and Machine Learning are practically homomorphic(1,2). You can't really be interested in Computer Science without being interested in Information Theory. Therefore, you're interested in Statistics. QED. (1)http://themachinelearningforum.org/index.php/overviews/34-colt-overviews/75-information-theory-and-machine-learning.html http://themachinelearningforum.org/index.php/overviews/34-co... (2)http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Teaching/CS340-Fall07/infoTheory.pdf http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Teaching/CS340-Fall07/infoT...