Textbooks: We recommend the following books, although we will not follow them closely.
Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction, Kevin P. Murphy, 2022.
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Christopher M. Bishop, 2006.
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman, 2017.
Statistical foundations of data science, Jianqing Fan, Runze Li, Cun-Hui Zhang, Hui Zou, Chapman and Hall, 2020.