Climate change is the environmental challenge of our and the next generation, writes CHANCE editor Scott Evans. The current issue features eight articles and an editorial—authored by members of the ASA’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy—that discuss climate change and its impact.
Journal Highlights
October Significance Features Great Migration of African Americans
The October 2017 issue of Significance is out in print and digital formats. The cover story presents a graphical account of the Great Migration of African Americans in the century following their emancipation from slavery.
Technometrics Calls for Editor Applications, Nominations
The American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality invite nominations and applications for the position of editor of Technometrics.
Significance Features Interview with Andreas Georgiou
The August issue of Significance is available. Included is an interview with Andreas Georgiou, the former head of the Greek National Statistics Institute who has faced years of criminal investigations.
JBES Highlights: Editor’s Introduction: Regime Switching and Threshold Models
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.
Adjusting the Odds
Mary Gray discusses legal options you have if you ever think decisions made for you are the result of discrimination.
Technometrics Highlights: Latest Issue Covers Design, Analysis, Anomaly Detection
Volume 59, Issue 1 of Technometrics includes 11 articles covering topics ranging from design and analysis of complex, black-box computer simulations to algorithmic design approaches for customizing and enhancing key properties of physical experiments to anomaly detection in image and other high-dimensional data streams.
JQAS Highlights Traveling Umpire, Tennis, and Soccer Featured in September Issue
Highlights from the September 2016 issue of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS) includes three articles with applications to soccer, tennis, and tournament scheduling.
TAS, JQAS Call for Editors
The American Statistical Association is calling for nominations and applications for editor of The American Statistician and Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.
Big Data Featured in August Special Issue
Highlights from the August 2016 issue of Technometrics—a special issue on Big Data analysis featuring 11 papers on a wide range of topics.