George Box (1919–2013)

… was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. Born in Gravesend, Kent. Got a PhD under supervision by Egon Pearson. Married Joan Fisher, whose father was R. A. Fisher.

He began to study chemistry, but was called up for service before finishing. During World War II, he performed experiments for the British Army exposing small animals to poison gas. To analyze the results of his experiments, he taught himself statistics from available texts.

"All models are wrong, but some are useful".

• Box-Jenkins models
• Box-Cox transformation
• Box-Behnken design
• etc.

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