responses to textbook survey

[Grace Wahba]

I teach a graduate level course in the Statistics 
Department on Statistical Modeling 
based on solving optimization problems in a 
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (now called `kernel methods'). 
It attracts occasional graduate students from 
CS and Engineering. I use my book `Spline Models
for Observational Data' (1990). This fall I will 
probably include parts of Smola and Schoelkopf's new 
book on SVM's, Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman 
on Statistical Learning, and Chong Gu's new 
book on Smoothing Spline ANOVA.