WORK OF

GEORGE EDWARD PELHAM

BOX
Presenter:
OSAMA BIN AJAZ

(18 October 1919 28 March 2013)

Place of Birth:Gravesend, Kent, England

Alma mater: University College London

Student and son-in-law of Ronald A.
Fisher

Enrolled at university college London to

obtain Bachelors degree in Chemistry.
Word War II
In 1947 he obtained bachelors degree
in mathematical statistics.
In 1953, he awarded PhD in the
supervision of Egon Pearson (son of
Karl Pearson).

In 1960, he appointed as professor and

chairman of the statistics department
at university of Wisconsin, Madison.
. In the same university he was
appointed to the Ronald Aylmer Fisher
chair of statistics in 1971.
He retired in 1992 and given the title of
Professor Emeritus.

MAIN AREAS OF CONTRIBUTION

Design of Experiments
Quality Control
Statistical inference
modeling strategy
time series analysis and forecasting
distribution theory
nonlinear estimation

SOME PUBLISHED PAPERS

A general distribution theory for a class of

likelihood criteria(1949)
Departures from Independence and
Homoscedastisity in the Analysis of Variance
and Related Statistical Analysis(1953)
Effects of inequality of variance and of correlation
between errors in the two-way
classification(1954)
Effect of inequality of variance in the one-way
classification(1954)

CONTD.

Non-normality and tests on

variances(1953)
Some theorems on quadratic forms
applied in the study of analysis of
variance problems
A note on regions for tests of
kurtosis(1953)

SOME OF THE MANY BOOKS

George wrote or co-authored over 200 scientific

papers and nine major statistical books.
Times series analysis Forecasting and
control(1970) in colloboration with Gwilym Jenkins
Bayesian inference in statistical analysis(1973),
written by Box in collaboration with George Tiao.
Evolutionary OperationA statistical method for
process improvement by G. E. P. Box and N. R.
Draper.

CONTD.

Statistics for experimentersin 1978 in

collaboration with William Hunter and
Stuart Hunter (5t edition 2005).
Empirical Model-Building and Response
Surfaces. G.E.P. Box and N.R. Draper
Response Surfaces, Mixture and Ridge
Analyse. G. E. P. Box and N. R. Draper.

SOME TITLE PAGES OF HIS

COLLECTION

HONORS

Guy Medal of theRoyal Statistical Society,

the Wilks Memorial Medal from the
American Statistical Association
Shewhart Medal from the American Society for Quality
Control
He has received honorary degrees from Rochester, New
York 1985, Carnegie Mellon 1989, Don Carlos III, Madrid
1995, and Waterloo, Canada 1999.
He has been elected a fellow of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences , theAmerican
Statistical Associationand theRoyal Statistical Society.

GEORGE BOX MEDAL

recognizes each year an extraordinary

statistician who has remarkably contributed
to the development and the application of
statistical methods in European business and
industry.

SOME QUOTES

all models are wrong, but some are useful 1.

We have a large reservoir of engineers (and

scientists) with a vast background of
engineering know how. They need to learn
statistical methods that can tap into the
knowledge. Statistics used as a catalyst to
engineering creation will, I believe, always
result in the fastest and most economical
progress2

REFERENCES AND URLS

G C Tiao (ed.),The collected works of George E P Box(2 Vols.) (Wadsworth

Advanced Books and Software, Belmont, CA, 1985).
G C Tiao, S Bisgaard, W J Hill, D Pena and S M Stigler (eds.),Box on quality and
discovery : With design, control, and robustness(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York,
2000).
1Box, George E. P.; Norman R. Draper (1987). Empirical Model-Building and
Response Surfaces, p. 424, Wiley. ISBN 0471810339.
2Statement of 1992, quoted inIntroduction to Statistical Experimental Design
What is it? Why and Where is it Useful?(2002) Johan Trygg & Svante Wold

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