Foreword xi
Second Foreword xv
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxi
From ThePublisher xxiii
1 Early Years 1
‘‘Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.’’
2 Army Life 19
‘‘Contrarywise, if it was so, it might be: and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’’
3 ICI and the Statistical Methods Panel 44
‘‘Can you answer useful questions?’’
4 George Barnard 53
‘‘When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.’’
5 An Invitation to the United States 63
‘‘The time has come, ‘the walrus said,’ to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.’’
6 Princeton 78
‘‘Ah! Then yours wasn’t a really good school.’’
7 A New Life in Madison 94
‘‘Digging for apples, your honor!’’
8 Time Series 124
‘‘What do you know about this business?’’
9 George Tiao and the Bayes Book 139
‘‘It gets easier further on.’’
10 GrowingUp (Helen and Harry) 144
‘‘There are 364 days when you might get unbirthday presents, and only 1 for birthday presents, you know.’’
11 Fisher—Father and Son 151
‘‘I only hope the boat won’t tipple over!’’
12 Bill Hunter and Some Ideas on Experimental Design 157
‘‘There goes Bill!’’
13 The Quality Movement 181
‘‘The race is over!. . . ‘Everybody has won and all must have prizes.’’’
14 Adventures with Claire 197
‘‘What else had you to learn?’’ ‘‘Well, there was Mystery.’’
15 The Many Sides of Mac 209
‘‘There’s nothing like eating hay when you’re feeling faint.’’
16 Life in England 218
‘‘What matters is how far we go? There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.’’
17 Journeys to Scandinavia 224
‘‘What sort of people live here?’’
18 A Second Home in Spain 228
‘‘I know something interesting is sure to happen.’’
19 The Royal Society of London 245
20 Conclusion 247
21 Memories 248
Index 265
GEORGE E. P. BOX, PhD, is Ronald Aylmer Fisher ProfessorEmeritus of Statistics and Industrial Engineering at the Universityof Wisconsin Madison. His lifelong work has definedstatistical analysis, while his name and research is a part of someof the most influential statistical constructs, includingBox Jenkins models, Box Cox transformations, andBox Behnken designs. Dr. Box is the coauthor of a number ofWiley books, including most recently, Statistical Control byMonitoring and Adjustment, Second Edition;Response Surfaces,Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses, Second Edition; and ImprovingAlmost Anything: Ideas and Essays, Revised Edition.
Mentioned in The Economist - 20 December 2014
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