Depends on your goal. If you want to read/implement things from COLT article a 101 stats/probability won't really cut it.
Though for applied papers that's sometimes enough.
But heed Larry Wasserman's advice: "Using fancy tools like neural nets, boosting, and support vector machines without understanding basic statistics is like doing brain surgery before knowing how to use a band-aid."
Though for applied papers that's sometimes enough.
But heed Larry Wasserman's advice: "Using fancy tools like neural nets, boosting, and support vector machines without understanding basic statistics is like doing brain surgery before knowing how to use a band-aid."