I don't know an answer to your original question.

Re: statistics and such though, I have heard very good things about http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis/

If you are interested in a Math 55 approach (yikes! I took 25), you could consider using their syllabus. http://abel.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M55a.02/index.html