> study modern statistics hard Would you recommend some texts that cover this? A friend suggested: * Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial by Devinderjit Sivia,

> study modern statistics hard Would you recommend some texts that cover this? A friend suggested: * Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial by Devinderjit Sivia, John Skilling * Bayesian Data Analysis, by Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern * Introduction to Statistical Inference by Jack C. Kiefer, Gary Lorden Currently I am working my way through this. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop These books are expensive and very time-consuming so it is important to pick the right ones.