R/Statistics Workshop Series Starts Next Monday!

BGSA R/Statistics Workshop Series Starts Monday February 6.

We are excited to announced the start of the BGSA organized R/Statistics workshop Winter series! The workshops provide an excellent opportunity for graduate students to surmount the seemingly steep R learning curve and advance their statistical skills.

The Winter series, facilitated by invited graduate students and faculty, begins Monday, February 6th 14h-16h in N4/17. It will continue weekly over ten sessions and tentatively cover the following topics:

• Programming in R
• Linear, generalized and additive mixed-effects models
• Path analysis, structural equations and causal inference (invited speaker: Bill Shipley)
• Likelihood estimation
• Bayesian statistics
• Time series analysis
• Spatial statistics

For more information, complete schedule, and workshop descriptions see:
https://sites.google.com/site/mcgillbgsa/workshops

The workshops are free to attend, but space may be limited so students are encouraged to register at:
https://sites.google.com/site/mcgillbgsa/register

Corey, Zofia, Étienne and Eric

BGSA R/Statistics Workshop Series Organizers

Pack the House!

Hello BGSAers!

Thanks to those who participated in our survey about Pack the ~

There is enough interest that we're going to Pack the House!

Who: You!
What: Pack the House! Support our Redmen and Martletts
When: Thursday, January 26th: Pregame 5-7
Where: Pregame at Thomlinson Hall, Game at the gym
Why: Show support, party with friends, have a good time, get out of the lab... take your pick!

Come out and support our Redmen and Martletts in an awesome double header basketball game against UQAM. There will be a pregame at Tomlinson Hall with drink specials and then everyone will head to the gym to make some noise and raise the roof. Bonus points if you know the origins of 'raise the roof' and you can't wikipedia it today!

Tickets are $3 and please sign up in the document below with your name, email and number of tickets you want.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aiihin_-Nu8qdEsxTjdud0llZi13RVNQQ01WMFBxUkE


Cheers
BGSA