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Statistical learning refers to a vast set of tools for understanding data. These tools can be classified as supervised or unsupervised. Broadly speaking, supervised statistical learning involves building a statistical model for predicting, or estimating, an output based on one or more inputs.
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James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R. (2013). Introduction. In: An Introduction to Statistical Learning. Springer Texts in Statistics, vol 103. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7138-7_1
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