George E. P. Box

Thinkers1919 to 2013Statistician

Works

  • Statistics for Experimenters, Wiley, 1978

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Known for

British statistician who worked on quality control, time series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. Statistics for Experimenters, written with William G. Hunter and J. Stuart Hunter, is a standard text on designing experiments and analyzing their results; he is also known for the remark that all models are wrong but some are useful.

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