A First Course in Machine Learning (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition)
"… the authors do well to keep complicated mathematical notation of the kind sometimes found in statistical texts to a minimum. The concepts are introduced in quite a simple way so as to be intelligible to a reader with no statistical background. … this introductory text will be useful to computer scientists who need some basic introduction to statistical methods to apply in their respective problems …"—Arindam Sengupta,International Statistical Review, 2014