George E. P. Box

George Edward Pelham Box ( born October 18, 1919 in Gravesend, England, † March 28, 2013 in Madison (Wisconsin ), United States ) was a British statistician and professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he founded the Department of Statistics has. Particularly well known he was for his work on quality control, time series analysis, statistical design of experiments and Bayesian statistics. From him comes the quote " Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful ", in German as " By their nature, all models are wrong but some are useful."

Career

During the Second World War box was working on a biochemical experiment with poison gas for the British military. Needing statistical methods for the analysis of the experiment, but no suitable statisticians found, he worked himself into the matter. After the war he graduated from the University College London a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics. In 1953 he got there the Ph. D..

Following positions at the universities of Princeton and North Carolina in 1960, he came to the University of Wisconsin. There he became a professor. In 1992, he went into retirement.

Honors

Publications

• Statistics for Experimenters Design, Innovation, and Discovery by George EP Box, William G. Hunter and J. Stuart Hunter, 2005.
• Box on Quality and Discovery: With Design, Control and Robustness 2000.
• Evolutionary Operation: A Statistical Method for Process Improvement George EP Box and Norman R. Draper, 1998.
• Time Series Analysis Forecasting and Control by George EP Box, Gregory C. Reinsel and Gwllyn Jenkins (ed. ), 1994.
• Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis, 1973.
• Statistical Control: by Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment by George EP Box and Alberto Luceno, 1997.
• Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis Reprint Edition by George EP Box and George C. Tiao, 1992.