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Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful

Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces

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George E. P. Box

Statistician

Born: 1919-10-18

Died: 2013-03-28

George Edward Pelham Box (October 18, 1919 – March 28, 2013) was a British mathematician and professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin, and a pioneer in the areas of quality control, time series analysis, design of experiments and Bayesian inference. He was the son-in-law of Sir Ronald Fisher.More