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Book SynopsisPraise for George E.P. Box and An Accidental Statistician I found most interesting the parts describing how he developed as a statistician, the intellectual influences on him, and the genesis of the ideas for which he is so well known...
Trade ReviewMentioned in The Economist - 20 December 2014
Table of ContentsForeword 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
