Looking forward to your results. Like I said, I cried uncle after the first year of statistics in undergraduate school.
I probably haven't had any more training in statistics than you. However, I did share an office with a statistician and assisted her a lot with the statistical analyses. That is, I would explain to her the medical/biological significance of the statistical tests she was running, and this helped her to determine the best kind of test to apply to the data. In turn, she would explain what, exactly, the statistics were showing.
Anyway, I am still doing the background research to guide my new number crunching. The best data I have seen alluded to would be the Diamond Princess study, but I still need more details on it.