George E. P. Box

George Box FRS
Born	(1919-10-18)18 October 1919 Gravesend, Kent, England
Died	28 March 2013(2013-03-28) (aged 93) Madison, Wisconsin
Alma mater	University College London
Known for	“All models are wrong” Response-surface methodology EVOP q-exponential distribution Box–Jenkins method Box–Cox transformation Box–Tidwell transformation Box–Behnken design Box–Cox distribution Box–Muller transform Box–Pierce test Box's M test Ljung–Box test
Awards	Shewhart Medal (1968) Wilks Memorial Award (1972) R. A. Fisher Lectureship (1974) FRS (1985)[1] Guy Medal (silver, 1964) (Gold, 1993) George Box Medal (2003)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	ICI Princeton University University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thesis	Departures from Independence and Homoskedasticity in the Analysis of Variance and Related Statistical Analysis  (1953)
Doctoral advisor	Egon Pearson H. O. Hartley[2]
Doctoral students	John F. MacGregor[2] Greta M. Ljung

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". He is famous for the quote "All models are wrong but some are useful".^[3][4][5][6]