Machine learning reference texts

Introductory

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


Intermediate

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

Advanced

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.