Statistical Machine Learning

Zhihua Zhang

This book will provide a comprehensive description for statistical machine learning. The book will be helpful for readers from both computer science and statistics communities. Specifically, the first part is especially useful for readers from machine learning or data mining, because machine learning is built on probability and statistics and this part can fill their background in statistics and probability. The third part is very useful for readers from mathematics and statistics, because it can bring new research topics or job opportunities for them.