We interviewed a handful of statistics teachers to find out who inspired them, where they get their best teaching tools, and what they think is the most challenging part of being a teacher.

ASA President Barry Nussbaum traveled to two major statistical conferences this summer. Here, he discusses their similarities and differences, as well as the future of the profession.

Nick Horton is a professor of statistics at Amherst College and a recipient of numerous awards, among them the Robert V. Hogg Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics.

Lawrence Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso repurposed Paul Simon’s 1977 top-five hit “Slip Slidin’ Away” to teach regression to the mean.

This special issue of the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics on regime switching and threshold models is motivated by the mounting empirical evidence of important nonlinearities in regression models commonly used to model the dynamics in macroeconomic and financial time series.