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In order to motivate our study of statistical learning, we begin with a simple example. Suppose that we are statistical consultants hired by a client to investigate the association between advertising and sales of a particular product.
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James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R. (2021). Statistical Learning. In: An Introduction to Statistical Learning. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1418-1_2
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