George E. P. Box
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George E. P. Box was a person.
- Context:
- He co-wrote: “essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful” in (George & Draper, 1987)
- See: Randomized Experiment Design.
References
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box
- George Edward Pelham Box FRS (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) 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 (2nd ed., 2005), Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control (4th ed., 2008, with Gwilym Jenkins and Gregory C. Reinsel) and Bayesian inference in statistical analysis. (1973, with George C. Tiao). 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.[1]
- George Edward Pelham Box FRS (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference.
- ↑ Box, George E. P.; Norman R. Draper (1987). Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces, p. 424, Wiley. ISBN 0-471-81033-9. (more details at wikiquote)
1978
- (Box et al., 1978) ⇒ George EP Box, William G Hunter, and J Stuart Hunter. (1978). “Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building." John Wiley & Sons. ISBN:0471093157