BGSA Winter Trip!!

Remember Lincoln Logs? You would spend hours meticulously building a two-storey log

cabin with a chimney only to realize that you couldn’t fit into the cabin, no matter how

hard you tried! Well, look no further! The BGSA is offering you the opportunity to stay

in a log cabin you can actually fit in. Come to the beautiful Adirondacks for a weekend of

stargazing, snowshoeing, skiing, and relaxing by the fire with 31 of your BGSA friends.

So, you wanna go?

Friends and partners are welcome! Email Aerin.Jacob@mail.mcgill.ca with the following info:

1. Do you want to stay only Friday night, only Saturday night, or both? In the past most

people stay both nights.

2. Do you have a car? If not, are you 25+ and willing to rent and drive one?

3. Do you have a sleeping bag? Can you bring an extra for someone else?

4. Any dietary restrictions? Vegetarian, vegan, allergies?

5. Are you bringing your own ski/snowshoe gear?

There are only 32 places, so reserve yours ASAP. Be advised that a $20 non-refundable

deposit is due by Wed Jan 12 -- stay tuned.

Check out below for full details

2011BGSAWinterTrip

Stats Workshops - Winter 2011 series

The BGSA R-Stats workshops are back again for another semester!

NEW DAY: MONDAYS 2-4 pm in the Stewart Biology computer lab (N4/17)

Check the website for complete schedule.

New & Improved!

We've changed the format a little, based on all the great feedback we received in the fall.

The most important change is that we have expanded the introduction to R material into 3 FULL WORKSHOPS, in consecutive weeks at the start of the semester. These workshops are designed to get you up & running with R, at a comfortable pace without overloading you with extra material. Even if you took the intro R workshops in the fall, you are welcome to attend these re-designed workshops if you want a refresher or a boost up the learning curve.

We expect the intro workshops to be popular, so registration will be required (register on the web site).

Beginning in February, the rest of the semester will feature various Special Topics, each a self-contained introduction or overview of a specific statistical method and how to implement it in R. There will be NO registration for special topics workshops: space will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so don't be late!

Check out the stats workshops web site for full details:

http://sites.google.com/site/mcgillbgsa/

Cheers,

Jonathan Whiteley

Neeltje Boogert

Corey Chivers