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An Accidental Statistician

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by George E P Box


  Birthday

  eightieth

  sixty fifth, letters

  sixty-fifth

  surprise party

  twenty-first

  Bisgaard, Søren

  Bisgaard, Sue Ellen

  Blackley, Lancashire, England

  Bliss, Chester I.

  Blue Knight, The

  Bollinger, John G.

  Bose, Chandra

  Bounded adjustment charts

  Box and Cox

  Box, Claire Quist

  builds a house

  initial meeting

  Quest program

  work with AIDS patients

  Box, Daisy. See Hoath, Daisy Box

  Box, Eliza Jane

  Box, Evelyn

  Box, George (grandfather)

  Box, George Herbert (uncle)

  Box, Gladys Ingleton

  Box, Harry (father)

  Box, Harry C. (son)

  author

  becomes a pilot

  cameraman, lighting technician

  films CQPI short courses

  train set

  year in Essex, England

  Box, Harry John Martin (“Jack”)

  ham radio

  Box, Helen E. (daughter)

  born in England

  making beer

  physician

  year in Essex, England

  Box, Helen Martin (mother)

  Box, Henry Pelham

  Box, Jessie Ward

  Box, Joan Fisher

  writes R.A. Fisher The Life of a Scientist

  Box, Joyce. See Daines, Joyce Box

  Box, Lester

  Box, Lina

  Box, Michael

  Box, Pelham Edward

  Box, Roger

  Box, Simon

  Box, Stacey K.

  Box-Behnken designs

  Boy Electrician, The

  Boys Night Out In

  Brightlingsea, Essex, England

  British Broadcasting Corporation

  British Institute of Recorded Sound

  Broadbalk agricultural experiment

  Brown, R.G.

  Brownlee, Kenneth Alexander

  Brumbaugh Award

  Bull, The

  Burman, P.J.

  Camera

  Caplan, Frank

  Cats

  Annabelle

  Bert

  Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI)

  1985 establishment

  receptions

  short course videotapes

  short courses

  Technical Reports

  Chapman, Robin S.

  Chemstrand Corporation

  Chen, Gina Gee

  Churchill, Winston

  Clark, Mary Ann

  Cleveland, William P.

  Cobham

  Street

  Village

  Cobham's Flying Circus

  Cointegration

  Cold War

  Color blindness

  Compleat Angler Hotel

  Conchi

  Connor, L.R.

  Consulting work

  Couper, David C.

  Cox, David

  Cox, Gertrude M.

  as fund raiser

  director of Institute of Statistics

  editor of “Biometrics”

  pioneer among women statisticians

  CQPI. See Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI)

  Cricket

  Cullumbine, Dr. Harry

  Culver Military Academy

  Black Horse Troop

  Daines, Alfred

  Daines, Joyce Box

  Daniel, Cuthbert

  Daniel, Janet

  Daniels, Henry E.

  Darwin, Charles

  Davies, O.L.

  de Bono, Edward

  Deming, W. Edwards

  If Japan Can, Why Can't We?

  Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments

  Dickens, Charles

  Dodge, Harold F.

  Doll, Richard

  Drake, Francis

  at Point Reyes

  at Santander, Spain

  Draper, Norman R.

  co-author

  summer student at ICI

  DuPont Company

  Durbin, James

  Dye, Robert

  Education

  B. Sc. in statistics

  chemistry

  County School for Boys

  disrupted by World War II

  external degree, London University

  Gillingham Technical College

  grounding in the sciences

  Intermediate Science Exam

  mathematics courses

  Ph.D. exam

  Ph.D. thesis

  scholarship

  second form

  University College

  Efron, Bradley

  Einstein, Albert

  Eliot, T.S.

  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen

  Epidiascope

  Escorial, El

  Essex, England

  Hill family

  European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics

  Evolutionary Operation

  Experimental design

  in Japanese industry

  in the Army

  teaching

  Exponentially weighted moving average

  External degree. See Education

  Factorial design

  paper helicopter

  Fingerprints

  Finney, David J.

  Finster, Mark P.

  Fisher, George

  Fisher, Harry

  Fisher, Ronald Aylmer

  British doctors' study on smoking

  fiducial inference

  influenced by Gosset

  invents experimental design

  invents Latin Square

  randomization

  Statistical Methods for Research Workers

  Studies in Crop Variation

  visit while in the Army

  visits North Carolina State University

  Fog

  Gravesend

  Manchester

  Ford Foundation

  Ford Motor Company

  Ford, Edmund Brisco “Henry”

  Forecasting

  Franco, Francisco

  Fraser, D.J.

  Frey, Anthony L.

  Friedman, Jerome H.

  Friedman, Milton

  Fung, Conrad A.

  on Bill Hunter

  Gaddum, John H.

  Galton, Francis

  Gasses, Toxic

  shells

  soldier-volunteers

  testing

  World War II

  Gaumnitz, Erwin A.

  Gauss, Christian

  Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich

  Geisser, Seymour

  General Electric Company

  Geometry

  $n$-dimensional

  George's Column

  Gershwin, George

  Gilbert and Sullivan

  Goon Show

  Gordon Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

  Gordon, Neal E.

  Gosset, William S.

  t-test

  Graphical analysis

  Gravesend, Kent, England

  Grubbs, Frank

  Gunter, Bert

  Gurland, John

  Guttman, Irwin

  Hamming, Walter J.

  Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England

  Harris, Bernard

  Hart, Lorenz

  Hartley, Herman Otto

  Harvard Business School

  visiting professor

  Hau, Grace

  Hau, Ian

  Haugh, Jane

  Haugh, Larry D.

  Hester, Muriel

  Hill, Bradford

  Hill, William J.

  Hoadley, A. Bruce

  Hoath, Daisy Box

  Hoeffding, Wassily

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nbsp; Hogg, Robert V.

  Holden-Day, Inc.

  Holmes, Terry

  Holt, Charles C.

  Homewood, Margaret

  Hotelling, Howard

  Hougen, Olaf A.

  Houseboat trips

  Høyland, Arnljot

  Høyland, Liv

  Hunter, Edna M. (Tady)

  Hunter, J. Stuart

  as driving instructor

  first Statistician in Residence

  first U.S. student

  initial meeting

  working on Statistics for Experimenters

  Hunter, John J.

  Hunter, Judith T.

  Hunter, Justin M.

  Hunter, William G.

  arrives in Madison

  becomes director of CQPI

  collaboration with Mac Berthouex

  First Street Garage project

  gifted teacher

  in Singapore

  initial meeting

  letter to George

  Madison leaf collection survey

  quality improvement class in Madison

  remembered

  teaching factorial design

  tour of Motorola

  working on Statistics for Experimenters

  Île de France

  Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)

  bus journeys to and from work

  Dyestuffs Division

  experimental design

  Intelligence Department

  leaving for North Carolina

  Miscellaneous Chemicals Division

  Statistical Methods Panel

  stories and jokes

  summer student

  Improving Almost Anything: Ideas and Essays

  Innovation

  analogy

  Bisgard's definition

  cross-functional discussion

  inductive-deductive process

  lateral thinking

  leadership

  Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award

  Intervention analysis

  Iowa State University

  Department of Statistics

  Ishikawa, Kaoru

  Japan

  1986 trip

  Japanese industry

  attitude toward workers

  post World War II

  quality control

  surpasses U.S.

  Jenkins, Gwilym M.

  establishes own company

  first contact

  Jenkins, Margaret B. (Meg)

  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

  Johnson, Richard A.

  Joiner, Brian L.

  Joiner, David

  Joiner, Kevin

  Joiner, Laurel W. (Laurie)

  Jones, Stephen

  Juran, Joseph J.

  Kackar, Raghu

  Kahlil, Alex

  Kanemasu, Hiro

  Kano, Noriaki

  Kean, Joan

  Kendall, Maurice G.

  Kenney, Harold

  Keswick, Cumbria, England

  Lake District

  Kish, Leslie

  Kleene, Steven C.

  Klotz, Jerome H.

  Kotnour, Kenneth D.

  Kramer, Timothy T.

  Lancaster, Lancashire, England

  summers with Jenkins family

  Langer, Rudolph E.

  Lawrence, Gertrude

  Ledolter, Johannes

  Lindley, Dennis V.

  Little Davies

  Little, Kevin

  Liu, Lon-Mu

  Ljung, Greta M.

  Ljung-Box test

  London University. See Education

  Lucas, H.L. “Curly”

  Luceño, Alberto

  Luceño-Ros, Alberto

  Luceño-Ros, Marian

  MacGregor, John F.

  Macleod, Norman

  Madison Area Quality Improvement Network

  Madison, Wisconsin

  quality improvement initiatives

  Mallows, Colin L.

  Manchester, England

  MAQIN. See Madison Area Quality Improvement Network

  Maravall, Agustín

  Martin, Keziah Hills

  Masefield, John E.

  Sea Fever

  Mashed Potato Club

  Mathematics

  part of the basis for statistics

  Maxwell, June

  McGowan, Harry Duncan

  Meeter, Duane A.

  Meinwald, Jerrold

  Military Air Transport Service (MATS)

  Miller, Glenn

  Monday Night Beer Session

  Fauerbach beer

  multi-disciplinary approach

  Most powerful tests

  Mosteller, C. Frederick

  Muller, Mervin E.

  Multivariate analysis

  Munster Lager. See Raubkammer

  Murtha, Andrew J.

  Murtha, Isaac A.

  Murtha, Thomas J.

  Music

  in childhood

  jazz band during World War II

  learning to play guitar

  playing guitar in Pensacola

  playing the piano

  Muth, John F.

  Nair, Vijay

  Narasimhan, Surendar

  National Science Foundation

  Nelder, John A.

  Newbold, Paul

  Neyman-Pearson theory

  Nicastro, Brent

  Non-parametric tests

  North Carolina

  buying a car

  learning about U.S. culture

  learning to drive

  piano

  North Carolina State University

  Institute of Statistics

  Visiting Research Professor

  Oakeshott, S.H.

  Öller, Katerina

  Öller, Lars-Erik

  Oxford University

  Jesus College

  Pack, David

  Pagel, Judith

  Pallesen, Lars C.

  Paniagua-Quiñones, Carmen

  Paper helicopter

  Parties

  at home in Gravesend

  Christmas

  Pearson, Egon S.

  Pearson, Karl

  Peña Sanchez de Rivera, Daniel

  Pender, James

  Pender, Kevin

  Pender, Margaret

  Peterson, Emily

  Phadke, Madhav

  Picnics

  Pierce, David A.

  Pike, Frederick Philips

  Plackett, Robin L.

  Plays. See also Shows

  in French class

  role of the porter in Macbeth

  Poems

  Porter, Cole

  Porter, Warren P.

  Porton Down

  Chemical Defence Experimental Station

  Potter, Kenneth

  Practice generating theory

  examples

  Prat, Albert

  Price, Richard

  Princeton University

  Gauss House

  IBM 650 computer

  meeting Bill Hunter

  meeting John Tukey

  Statistical Techniques Research Group (STRG)

  Theobald Smith House

  Process control

  Pubs

  Lancaster

  Pukkila, Tarmo

  Quality control charts

  rethinking

  Quality Engineering

  Quality Quandaries

  Queen Mary, RMS

  Quigley, Stephen H.

  Radio

  crystal

  Raiffa, Howard

  Raleigh, North Carolina

  Ramírez, José

  Rationing

  during World War II

  post World War II

  Raubkammer

  German Chemical Warfare Experimental Station

  Reinsel, Gregory C.

  Reith, John
/>   Response surface methodology

  Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses

  Retirement

  letters

  Riordan, Frank S.

  Robustness

  Roig, Tina

  Ros, Marian

  Rothamsted Experimental Station

  Roussas, George G.

  Royal Air Force

  Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAFS)

  Royal Navy

  Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS)

  Royal Society of London

  becoming a fellow

  Royal Statistical Society

  meetings

  Research Committee

  Rubin, Donald B.

  Sale, England

  Salford Technical College

  Salisbury Plain

  Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

  Sandland, Ron

  Scheffé, Henry

  Schlaifer, Robert

  Scholtes, Peter R.

  Sedransk, Joseph H.

  Sensenbrenner, F. Joseph

  Sewage treatment

  activated sludge process

  assistant chemist

  first published paper

  Shain, Irving

  Shewhart, Walter A.

  Shoemaker, Anne

  Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin

  Short courses

  CQPI

  with Stu Hunter

  with Stu Hunter and George Tiao

  Shows

  Cinderella

  You've Had It

  Shube, Beatrice

  Skits

  Smith, Smudger

  Smoking

  Snedecor, George W.

  Snee, Ronald D.

  Songs

  Chattanooga Choo Choo

  Closet that Holds Up the John, The

  Experiment

  I Am the Very Model of a Professor Statistical

  Let's Go Robust

  Marching through Georgia

  The Chairman's Lot is Not a Happy One

  There's No Theorem Like Bayes' Theorem

  Southward, G. Morris

  Spencer, Mr. (headmaster)

  Sredni, Jacob

  Stansted Hall

  Statistical Control by Monitoring and Adjustment

  Statistical Methods in Research and Production

  Statistical Methods Panel. See Imperial Chemical Industries

  Statistical significance

  Statistician in Residence Program. See University of Wisconsin Department of Statistics

  Statistics

  as a field separate from mathematics

  as catalyst to scientific method

  evolution of the field

  teaching

  technometrics

  Statistics for Experimenters

  second edition

  Spanish translation

  Steinberg, David

  Stigler, Stephen M.

  Stone, Mervyn

  Taguchi Methods

  Taguchi, Genichi

  Taguchi, Kumiko

  Taguchi, Shin

  Taylor, Mark

  Taylor, Richard

  Tea

  Technometrics

  evolution of the journal

  Thain, Jean

  Thames River

  Tiao, George C.

  Los Angeles air pollution data

  Tilbury, Essex, England

  Time series

  ARIMA models

  estimation using Bayes' theorem

  multiple

  non-stationary

  seasonal

  stationary

  Time Series Analysis

  Forecasting and Control

  impact

  Tippett, L.H.C.

  Tort-Martorell Llabrés, Xavier

  Toyota

  1986 visit

  innovation

 

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