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.
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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.
2017 Causality in Statistics Award Winner Announced
The American Statistical Association will award the fifth Causality in Statistics Education Prize to Ilya Shpitser, John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University.
Update from the Division of Mathematical Sciences
An update from the management team of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation touches on recent program activities from DMS and an outlook for the future.
ASA Census at School Program Exceeds 50,000 Students
The American Statistical Association’s U.S. Census at School program —a free international classroom project that engages students in grades 4–12 in statistical problem solving using their own real data—has exceeded the milestone of 50,000 students.
Summertime and the Living Is …
It’s August, but despite what Nat King Cole may have thought, the days are hardly lazy for the statistics profession.
Jeff Wu Receives 2017 Box Medal from ENBIS
Jeff Wu has received the 2017 Box Medal Award from the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics.
Sons Inspire ‘Stats Ninja’ Run at ‘American Ninja Warrior’
Ben Saville recently competed in NBC’s television reality show, “American Ninja Warrior,” in San Antonio as the “Stats Ninja.”
Getting Paid: How to Determine Your Fee
Independent statistical consultants can bill by the hour or bill by the project, and there are trade-offs between the two approaches.
Biopharmaceutical Symposium on Tap for October in Savannah
The 24th meeting of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS XXIV) will be held October 23–27 at the Hotel Indigo Savannah Historic District in Savannah, Georgia.