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George E. P. Box, the Glossary

George Edward Pelham Box (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference.^[1]

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All models are wrong

All models are wrong is a common aphorism and anapodoton in statistics; it is often expanded as "All models are wrong, but some are useful".

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Society for Quality

The American Society for Quality (ASQ), formerly the American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), is a society of quality professionals, with more than 40,000 members.

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American Statistical Association

The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States.

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Bayesian inference

Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available.

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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.

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Box's M test

Box's M test is a multivariate statistical test used to check the equality of multiple variance-covariance matrices.

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Box–Behnken design

In statistics, Box–Behnken designs are experimental designs for response surface methodology, devised by George E. P. Box and Donald Behnken in 1960, to achieve the following goals.

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Box–Cox distribution

In statistics, the Box–Cox distribution (also known as the power-normal distribution) is the distribution of a random variable X for which the Box–Cox transformation on X follows a truncated normal distribution.

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Box–Jenkins method

In time series analysis, the Box–Jenkins method, named after the statisticians George Box and Gwilym Jenkins, applies autoregressive moving average (ARMA) or autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models to find the best fit of a time-series model to past values of a time series.

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Box–Muller transform

The Box–Muller transform, by George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller, is a random number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Central composite design

In statistics, a central composite design is an experimental design, useful in response surface methodology, for building a second order (quadratic) model for the response variable without needing to use a complete three-level factorial experiment.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.

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COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship

The COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (formerly known as R. A. Fisher Award and Lectureship) is a very high recognition of achievement and scholarship in statistical science that recognizes the highly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations.

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David Cox (statistician)

Sir David Roxbee Cox (15 July 1924 – 18 January 2022) was a British statistician and educator. George E. P. Box and David Cox (statistician) are British mathematical statisticians, English statisticians and fellows of the American Statistical Association.

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Design of experiments

The design of experiments (DOE or DOX), also known as experiment design or experimental design, is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Egon Pearson

Egon Sharpe Pearson (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children of Karl Pearson and Maria, née Sharpe, and, like his father, a British statistician. George E. P. Box and Egon Pearson are British mathematical statisticians and English statisticians.

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Emeritus

Emeritus (female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".

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EVOP

Evolutionary Operation (EVOP) is a manufacturing process-optimization technique developed in the 1950s by George E. P. Box.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".

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George Box Medal

The George Box Medal is an insignia of an award named after the statistician George Box.

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Gravesend

Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south bank of the River Thames and opposite Tilbury in Essex.

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Greta M. Ljung

Greta Marianne Ljung (born 1941) is a Finnish American statistician. George E. P. Box and Greta M. Ljung are American statisticians.

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Guy Medal

The Guy Medals are awarded by the Royal Statistical Society in three categories; Gold, Silver and Bronze.

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Gwilym Jenkins

Gwilym Meirion Jenkins (12 August 1932 – 10 July 1982) was a British statistician and systems engineer, born in Gowerton (Tregŵyr), Swansea, Wales.

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Herman Otto Hartley

Herman Otto Hartley (born Hermann Otto Hirschfeld in Berlin, Germany; 1912–1980) was a German American statistician. George E. P. Box and Herman Otto Hartley are American statisticians, fellows of the American Statistical Association and Presidents of the American Statistical Association.

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Imperial Chemical Industries

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company.

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Institute of Mathematical Statistics

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability.

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International Journal of Forecasting

The International Journal of Forecasting is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal on forecasting.

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John F. MacGregor

John Frederick MacGregor (born 1943 in Ontario, Canada) is a statistician whose work in the field of statistical process control has received significant recognition. George E. P. Box and John F. MacGregor are fellows of the American Statistical Association.

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Journal of the American Statistical Association

The Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) is the primary journal published by the American Statistical Association, the main professional body for statisticians in the United States.

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List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1985

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1985.

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Ljung–Box test

The Ljung–Box test (named for Greta M. Ljung and George E. P. Box) is a type of statistical test of whether any of a group of autocorrelations of a time series are different from zero.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness.

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North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University (NC State, North Carolina State, NC State University, or NCSU) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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Power transform

In statistics, a power transform is a family of functions applied to create a monotonic transformation of data using power functions.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Quality control

Quality control (QC) is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production.

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Response surface methodology

In statistics, response surface methodology (RSM) explores the relationships between several explanatory variables and one or more response variables.

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Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. George E. P. Box and Ronald Fisher are British mathematical statisticians, English statisticians and probability theorists.

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Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society.

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Shewhart Medal

The Shewhart Medal, named in honour of Walter A. Shewhart, is awarded annually by the American Society for Quality for...outstanding technical leadership in the field of modern quality control, especially through the development to its theory, principles, and techniques. The first medal was awarded in 1948.

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Significance (magazine)

Significance, established in 2004, is a bimonthly print and digital magazine published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) and the American Statistical Association (ASA).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box

Also known as G. E. P. Box, George Box, George E P Box, George E.P. Box, George EP Box, George Edward Pelham Box.

, University of London, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wiley (publisher), Wilks Memorial Award.

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British mathematical statisticians

Imperial Chemical Industries people

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