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Frequently asked questions
Do I need to buy a textbook?
No, a free online version of An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R by James, Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani (Springer, 2013) is available from that website. Springer has agreed to this, so no need to worry about copyright. Of course you may not distribiute printed versions of this pdf file.
Is R and RStudio available for free?
Yes. You get R for free from http://cran.us.r-project.org/. Typically it installs with a click. You get RStudio from http://www.rstudio.com/, also for free, and a similarly easy install.
How many hours of effort are expected per week?
We anticipate it will take approximately 3-5 hours per week to go through the materials and exercises in each section.