George E. P. Box
Overview
Statistician
A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...
, who has made important contributions in the areas of quality control
Quality control
Quality control, or QC for short, is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. This approach places an emphasis on three aspects:...
, time-series analysis, design of experiments
Design of experiments
In general usage, design of experiments or experimental design is the design of any information-gathering exercises where variation is present, whether under the full control of the experimenter or not. However, in statistics, these terms are usually used for controlled experiments...
, and Bayesian inference
Bayesian inference
In statistics, Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference. It is often used in science and engineering to determine model parameters, make predictions about unknown variables, and to perform model selection...
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Box has written research papers and published books. These include Statistics for experimenters (1978), Time series analysis: Forecasting and control (1979, with Gwilym Jenkins
Gwilym Jenkins
Gwilym Meirion Jenkins was a Welsh statistician and systems engineer, born in Gowerton , Swansea, Wales. He is most notable for his pioneering work with George Box on autoregressive moving average models, also called Box-Jenkins models, in time-series analysis.He earned a first class honors degree...
) and Bayesian inference in statistical analysis. (1973, with George C.
Quotations
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.