Machine learning reference texts

Introductory

Introduction to Data Mining, Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, and Vipin Kumar, Addison-Wesley, 2006.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R, Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani, Springer, Springer, 2013.
        This entire text can be downloaded FREE.

Advanced

Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective, Kevin Murphy, MIT Press, 2012 (to be published in August 2012).
        Chapter 1 can be downloaded FREE.

The Elements of Statistical Learning, 2nd Ed., Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman, Springer, 2009.
        This entire text can be downloaded FREE.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Christopher Bishop, Springer, 2006.