Elements of statistical learning-Data mining, inference and prediction

Thisbookdescribesmoderntoolsfordataanalysis.Withtheexceptionofthelastchapter,itisconcernedwith"supervised"methods-thosemethodsinwhichasampleofcasesisavailable,includingvaluesofanoutcomevariable,andonwhichonecanbuildamodelallowingonetopredictthevalueoftheoutcomevariable