Prerequisites for Elements of Statistical Learning

I am working through Elements of Statistical Learning, and unfortunately have found great difficulty in following the math. I have taken the standard series of Calculus courses (i.e., up to multi-variable calculus) and linear algebra, and have taken introductory (non-calculus-based) statistics and econometric courses.

Please let me know if there are any courses or textbooks you would recommend in order to get my mathematics/statistics knowledge up to speed. For example, I am considering working through the relevant portions of Statistical Inference (Casella, Berger) as a prereq.

Thank you!

Topic esl statistics

Category Data Science

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In addition to @MrDKB's suggestion.

Another book which eases the reader into mathematical statistics, which could serve as a warm up to ESL is:

Introduction Mathematical Statistics

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The authors of Elements of Statistical Learning have come out with a new book (Aug 2013) aimed at users without heavy math backgrounds.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R

Download from here: http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/

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