My research - or why the hell am I doing this?

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Over the past couple of months, as I worked 10-30 hour weeks with two kids and no child care for DS (8 months, cute kid, very good at playing on his own for a little while, bad napper), I often asked myself - why am I doing this? Why am I revising two journal papers, submitting another two (one as first, one as second author), dealing with PhD

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Teams in medicine usually have resident statisticians; us computer scientists don't tend to have that luxury. You're supposed to be able to handle complex designs and difficult analyses because as a computer scientist, you're mathematically literate, right? Because you know all about exotic logics, you can select and run the appropriate significance test, right? Wrong. So I'm teaching myself and trying to learn from best practice.
Ha, so now *I* know who to ask, good :-) (I have one tame statistician, who is very useful, but she has a day job which isn't for us.) Some time, in all your copious free time, you should give a course on "statistics for computer scientists" or some such.

More seriously, is there a really good book you can recommend? I haven't found a great source yet, and the web doesn't help, since it either assumes I know more stats than I do or assumes I know less maths and is irritating or illogical or both.

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james Lindsey is great.

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Thanks!