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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
George E. P. Box
Born: October 18, 1919
Died: March 28, 2013 (aged 93)
Bio: George Edward Pelham Box was a 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".
Known for:
- Statistics for experimenters (1978)
- Bayesian inference in statistical analysis (1973)
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