PhD student reading list, suggestions wanted

From: Ko-Kang Kevin Wang

Hi,

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But above all, I would like her to use R whenever it's appropriate.
We have MASS and Dalgaard's introductory book in the 

library here, I'm

aware of "S Poetry", but what do you think would be the 

best start for

someone learning R in order to use it for doing data mining?

Not specifically for R, but a must-have for anyone going into 
data mining
area is "The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, 
Inference, and Prediction", by Hastie et. al.

I would add BDR's 1996 Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, and FEH's
2002 Regression Modeling Strategies.

Even though Prof. Harrell's book is not strictly about data mining, it has
lots of things that dataminers need to know about, or at least be aware of,
IMHO.

Andy

 

Kevin

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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang, MSc(Hon)
SLC Stats Workshops Co-ordinator
The University of Auckland
New Zealand