The Elements of Statistical Learning

We would like to acknowledge the contribution of many people to the
conception and completion of this book. David Andrews, Leo Breiman,
Andreas Buja, John Chambers, Bradley Efron, Geo®rey Hinton, Werner
Stuetzle, and John Tukey have greatly in°uenced our careers. Balasubramanian
Narasimhan gave us advice and help on many computational
problems, and maintained an excellent computing environment. Shin-Ho
Bang helped in the production of a number of the ¯gures. Lee Wilkinson
gave valuable tips on color production. Ilana Belitskaya, Eva Cantoni, Maya
Gupta, Michael Jordan, Shanti Gopatam, Radford Neal, Jorge Picazo, Bogdan
Popescu, Olivier Renaud, Saharon Rosset, John Storey, Ji Zhu, Mu
Zhu, two reviewers and many students read parts of the manuscript and
o®ered helpful suggestions. John Kimmel was supportive, patient and helpful
at every phase; MaryAnn Brickner and Frank Ganz headed a superb
production team at Springer. Trevor Hastie would like to thank the statistics
department at the University of Cape Town for their hospitality during
the ¯nal stages of this book. We gratefully acknowledge NSF and NIH for
their support of this work. Finally, we would like to thank our families and
our parents for their love and support.
Trevor Hastie
Robert Tibshirani
Jerome Friedman
Stanford, California
May 2001
The quiet statisticians have changed our world; not by discovering
new facts or technical developments, but by changing the
ways that we reason, experiment and form our opinions ....
{Ian Hacking