This third edition covers today's most commonly used techniques in computational statistics while maintaining the same philosophy and writing style of the bestselling previous editions. This edition uses the latest version of MATLAB® and the corresponding version of the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox. It also incorporates new sections on the nearest neighbor classifier, support vector machines, model checking and regularization, partial least squares regression, and multivariate adaptive regression splines. MATLAB code, examples, and data sets are available online.