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George E. P. Box
(1919 - )
English-American engineer and statistician.
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Science Quotes by George E. P. Box (3)
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
— George E. P. Box
In George E.P. Box and Norman R. Draper, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (1987), 424.
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
— George E. P. Box
In George E.P. Box and Norman R. Draper, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (1987), 74.
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
— George E. P. Box
Use and Abuse of Regression (1966), 629.
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