Main textbook (R version)
- An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications
in R by G. James, D. Witten, T. Hastie, and R. Tibshirani, 2nd edition; Springer, 2021.
ISBN 1071614177.
Main textbook (Python version)
- An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications
in Python by G. James, D. Witten, T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Taylor; Springer, 2023.
ISBN 3031387465.
Supplementary textbook
- The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining,
Inference, and Prediction, by T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman, 2nd
Edition; Springer, 2009. ISBN 0387848576.
R corner
Download R from this site and install it in your system.
The same site also contains various R manuals and other help.
Python corner
To use Python via Jupiter notebook, install Anaconda from this site,
start it, and click "Launch" in the Jupiter Notebook box. Here is a nice installation video guide.
A detailed interactive Python tutorial is here.
Birth weights dataset (birthwt) and its
description
from library MASS, Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.
Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is a metasite that publishes and updates complete COVID-19 data from the World Health Organization, Metabiota, Global Health 50/50, Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS), and others.
Location: https://data.humdata.org/, https://data.humdata.org/event/covid-19