Machine learning foundations· book· 2001
The Elements of Statistical Learning
On the reading lists
- #7 on the Books shelf (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Canonical textbook unifying statistical learning methods, theory, regularization, trees, kernels, and ensembles.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2001 (from Crossref)
- Citations
- 23,846 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Versions merged
- The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (editor)
Editor's notes
- Merged “The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction” into this entry: The same book, listed once with and once without its subtitle. (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-29)
- Classed as book: Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman's textbook. (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-29)
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.