Background
He was born in Gravesend, Kent, England.
statistician university professor
He was born in Gravesend, Kent, England.
He received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London in 1953, under the supervision of Egon Pearson.
He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century". Upon entering university he began to study chemistry, but was called up for service before finishing. During World World War II, he performed experiments for the British Army exposing small animals to poison gas.
To analyze the results of his experiments, he taught himself statistics from available texts.
After the war, he enrolled at University College London and obtained a bachelor"s degree in mathematics and statistics. From 1948 to 1956, Box worked as a statistician for Imperial Chemical Industries (Imperial Chemical Industries).
While at Imperial Chemical Industries, he took a leave of absence for a year and served as a visiting professor at the North Carolina State University at Raleigh (now North Carolina State University). He later went to Princeton University where he served as Director of the Statistical Research Group.
In 1960, Box moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to create the Department of Statistics.
He was appointed Vilas Research Professor of Statistics (the highest honor accorded to any faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison) in 1980. Box and Bill Hunter co-founded the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1984. Box officially retired in 1992, becoming an Emeritus Professor.
Box published books including Statistics for Experimenters (2nd ed, 2005), Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control (4th ed, 2008, with Gwilym Jenkins and Gregory C Reinsel) and Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis.
(1973, with George C Tiao).
Royal Society.