George Edward Pelham Box (18 October, 1919 – ) a statistician, a pioneer in the areas of quality control, time series analysis, design of experiments and Bayesian inference.
Box has written research papers and published books These include Statistics for Experimenters (1978), Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control (1979, with Gwilym Jenkins) and Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis. (1973, with George C. Tiao). Today, his name is ass...
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George Edward Pelham Box (18 October, 1919 – ) a statistician, a pioneer in the areas of quality control, time series analysis, design of experiments and Bayesian inference.
Box has written research papers and published books These include Statistics for Experimenters (1978), Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control (1979, with Gwilym Jenkins) and Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis. (1973, with George C. Tiao). Today, his name is associated with important results in statistics such as Box-Jenkins models, Box-Cox transformations, Box-Behnken designs and numerous others.
The often quoted phrase, "Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful", is attributed to Box.
He was born in Gravesend, Kent, England and trained as a chemist. During World War II, he worked on biochemical experiments on the effect of poison gases on small animals for the British Army. He needed statistical advice to analyze the results of his experiments but could not find a statistician who...
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