George E. P. Box
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For the ice hockey player, see George Box (ice hockey).
George Edward Pelham Box FRS[1] (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. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".[3][4][5][6]
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Born | (1919-10-18)18 October 1919 Gravesend, Kent, England |
Died | 28 March 2013(2013-03-28) (aged 93) |
Alma mater | University College London |
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Fields | Statistics |
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Thesis | Departures from Independence and Homoskedasticity in the Analysis of Variance and Related Statistical Analysis (1953) |
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Doctoral students | John F. MacGregor[2] Greta M. Ljung |
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