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George Box, quality, and improving almost anything
Author(s) -
Fung Conrad A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
applied stochastic models in business and industry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.413
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1526-4025
pISSN - 1524-1904
DOI - 10.1002/asmb.2015
Subject(s) - snapshot (computer storage) , george (robot) , computer science , quality (philosophy) , robustness (evolution) , operations research , sociology , management , data science , epistemology , artificial intelligence , economics , philosophy , mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , operating system
The quality movement of the 1980s and 1990s was as if custom‐made for George Box. The notion of improvement is statistical at its heart, and the quality imperative brought new energy to a confluence of fields pioneered by him, including industrial experimental design, time series analysis, and robustness.[Note ‡. ‡See the articles by Steinberg; Hill; Abraham, Ledolter, and ...] With a focus on quality since the mid‐1980s, Box authored over 100 additional publications of unfailing inventiveness, including a Brumbaugh Award winner when he was 90. He delighted in how the simplest statistical tools of the quality movement democratized the scientific method and shared his insights in popular forums with wit and grace. In this brief reflection, we offer a snapshot of that very rich era. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.