statistics - data mining / machine learning, pattern recognition, neural network, random forest, ridge regression, lasso, nearest neighbor, cluster analysis, multiple linear regression, logistic regression, logit / probit transformation, spline, kernel smoother, nonparametric statistics, support vector machines, cross-validation, model selection, principal component analysis ( PCA ), canonical correlation analysis, Monte Carlo, variance reduction, antithetic / importance sampling, covariate, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, EM algorithm, Gibbs sampler, Metropolis - Hastings, Bayes rule, Bayesian Statistics, conjugate prior, posterior distribution, conditional expectation, multivariate distribution,