And also i liked "A Concise Course in Statistical Inference" by Larry Wasserman to be one of the best books<br>for introductory and slightly advanced Statistics. The book simply *flows* (though does not have the associated code,<br>
but readability is very good).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Venkatraman S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:venkat83@gmail.com">venkat83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">Thanks guys for the suggestions. I find Stephen Marsland's <br>_Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective_ to be *really* appealing.<br><br>The Google Book preview looks neat. But the book is EXPENSIVE! I do not <br>
understand why textbooks are so darn costly! <br><br>On a lighter note, i searched this book in the web, but i found voidness everywhere.<br></div>Am not sure whether the publishers would be game for a review copy.<br><font color="#888888"><br>
-V<br>
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