1.3 Premises of ISLR

From Page 9 of the Introduction:

• “Many statistical learning methods are relevant and useful in a wide range of academic and non-academic disciplines, beyond just the statistical sciences.”
• “Statistical learning should not be viewed as a series of black boxes.”
• “While it is important to know what job is performed by each cog, it is not necessary to have the skills to construct the machine inside the box!”
• “We presume that the reader is interested in applying statistical learning methods to real-world problems.”