Walter W. Piegorsch, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA is the current Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmetrics and a previous Chairman of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment. Piegorsch is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He previously served as Joint-Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the U.S. National Toxicology Program.

• Preface vii1 Data analytics and data mining 12 Basic probability and statistical distributions 33 Data manipulation 144 Data visualization and statistical graphics 285 Statistical inference 456 Techniques for supervised learning: simple linear regression 657 Techniques for supervised learning: multiple linear regression 908 Supervised learning: generalized linear models 1349 Supervised learning: classification 15410 Techniques for unsupervised learning: dimension reduction 18511 Techniques for unsupervised learning: clustering and association 200References 216