George E. P. Box

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George Box
Gravesend, Kent, England
Died28 March 2013(2013-03-28) (aged 93)
Madison, Wisconsin
Alma materUniversity College London
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Institutions
Thesis Departures from Independence and Homoskedasticity in the Analysis of Variance and Related Statistical Analysis  (1953)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral studentsJohn F. MacGregor[2]
Greta M. Ljung

George Edward Pelham Box

time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".[3][4][5][6]

Education and early life

He was born in

PhD from the University of London in 1953, under the supervision of Egon Pearson.[2][7]

Career and research

From 1948 to 1956, Box worked as a statistician for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). While at ICI, he took a leave of absence for a year and served as a visiting professor at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. He later went to Princeton University where he served as Director of the Statistical Research Group.

In 1960, Box moved to the

emeritus professor.[10]

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 Tiao).

Awards and honours

Box served as president of the

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985.[1]

His name is associated with results in statistics such as

Box–Cox transformations, Box–Behnken designs, and others. Additionally, Box famously wrote, in various books and papers, that "all models are wrong, but some are useful".[11][12][13]

Personal life

Box married Jessie Ward in 1945.[14] In 1959, Box married Joan Fisher, the second of Ronald Fisher's five daughters. In 1978, Joan Fisher Box published a biography of Ronald Fisher, with substantial collaboration with Box.[15] Box married Claire Louise Quist in 1985.

Box died on 28 March 2013. He was 93 years old.[1][16]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0080-4606
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  2. ^ a b c George E. P. Box at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Julian Champkin, "George Box, (1919-2013): a wit, a kind man and a statistician Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine", Significance.
  4. JSTOR 2245757
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  5. doi:10.1016/S0169-2070(00)00061-3
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  6. ^ Colin Beveridge (5 April 2013). "George E. P. Box (1919-2013)". The Aperiodical.
  7. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "George E. P. Box", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  8. JSTOR 2245757
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  9. S2CID 205459356
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  10. ISBN 9780230348189
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  11. doi:10.1080/01621459.1976.10480949
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  12. ISBN 9780471810339
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  13. ISBN 9780471718130
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  14. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/109283. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  15. ISBN 0-471-09300-9. Archived from the original
    on 8 April 2017.
  16. ^ Jones, Bradley (29 March 2013). "George Box: A remembrance". SAS Institute Inc. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

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