Reading List

1) F. Daly, D. J. Hand, M. C. Jones, A. D. Lunn, K. J. McConway, Elements of Statistics (Addison Wesley, 1995). Chapters 1--5 give background including plots and summary statistics, Chapter 6 and parts of Chapter 7 are directly relevant.

2) G. James, D. Witten, T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani An Introduction to Statistical Learning (with Applications in R) (Springer 2013) - Chapter 3 on linear regression problems, Chapter 10 on unsupervised learning. This book is freely available online.

1) J. A. Rice, Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis (Wadsworth and Brooks Cole, 1988).

2) S. Rogers and M. Girolami, A First Course in Machine Learning (CRC Press 2011)

See also: ORLO (Oxford Reading Lists Online)