In short: I didn't take enough stats courses in college. Now I am working on scientific research and I feel somewhat lost when it comes to designing the statistical framework. I have looked through the books at: http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html I even tried to read [17] Julian J. Faraway. Linear Models with R. This book is too advanced. It helped a little bit but I still feel lost. Can somebody recommend a textbook or textbooks suitable for a self-study stats course? Brief bio: I have 20 years background in software development. I know lots of computer languages including C++ and Perl. The computer language aspects of R seems fairly simple. I did some calculus in college but not more than 1-2 courses. I have a basic understanding of probability. I mostly understand descriptive statistics. I feel somewhat lost when it comes to statistical inference. I am good at self-study. I happily spend 12 hours a day reading dry technical manuals. About the research: I have designed a web-based questionaire. http://shared.openheartlogic.org My collaborator (equally stats inept) is working on a similar web-based questionaire http://ruminate.openheartlogic.org Ultimately, we want to publish in a peer-reviewed journal such as Emotion & Cognition or, at least, get a paper accepted at the annual Cognitive Science conference. Something like that. We have already started collecting data but not on a large scale since we are not confident about our statistical approach. This is a shot in the dark, but if a stats expert wants to collaborate with us then we would welcome that. We don't have much to offer except, what we think is, exciting research. In any case, a few textbook recommendations would probably help me a lot.
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