George E. P. Box
Statistician, Academic
1919 – 2013
Who was George E. P. Box?
George Edward Pelham Box FRS was a statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference.
Box published books including Statistics for Experimenters, Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control and Bayesian inference in statistical analysis.. His name is associated with results in statistics such as Box–Jenkins models, Box–Cox transformations, Box–Behnken designs, and others.
Box wrote that "essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful" in his book on response surface methodology with Norman R. Draper.
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- Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
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- Born
- Oct 18, 1919
Gravesend - Also known as
- George Edward Pelham Box
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University College London
- PhD, University of London
Statistics
( - 1953)
- Employment
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
(1960 - 1992)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lived in
- Gravesend
- United Kingdom
- Madison
( - 2013/03/28)
- Died
- Mar 28, 2013
Madison
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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