Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Machine Learning

An introductory textbook for undergraduate or beginning graduate students that integrates probability and statistics with their applications in machine learning. Most curricula have students take an undergraduate course on probability and statistics before turning to machine learning. In this innovative textbook, Ethem Alpaydın offers an alternative tack by integrating these subjects for a first course on learning from data. Alpaydın accessibly connects machine learning to its roots in probabili