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viii<br />

Preface<br />

disciplines who wish to use statistical learning tools to analyze their data.<br />

It can be used as a textbook for a course spanning one or two semesters.<br />

We would like to thank several readers for valuable comments on preliminary<br />

drafts of this book: Pallavi Basu, Alexandra Chouldechova, Patrick<br />

Danaher, Will Fithian, Luella Fu, Sam Gross, Max Grazier G’Sell, Courtney<br />

Paulson, Xinghao Qiao, Elisa Sheng, Noah Simon, Kean Ming Tan,<br />

and Xin Lu Tan.<br />

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.<br />

-Yogi Berra<br />

Los Angeles, USA<br />

Seattle, USA<br />

Palo Alto, USA<br />

Palo Alto, USA<br />

Gareth James<br />

Daniela Witten<br />

Trevor Hastie<br />

Robert Tibshirani

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