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fyi, The Elements of Statistical Learning can be found here as a free pdf

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

there's also an R package with the book's material: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ElemStatLearn/index.h...

The Berkeley webcast* Introduction to Statistics, uses "Statistics, Fourth Edition" by Freeman. I don't know what the differences are, but I think it's mostly for the exercises involved.

* http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=...

I messed up. Statistics 4th edition is the current edition (the one to get), in this case there is no content related reason to deliberately seek out the older edition.

Make that 4th edition (sorry about the mistake).