# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-e-p-box
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:42:05.977Z

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name: "George E. P. Box"
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description: "George Edward Pelham Box was a British 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\". His quote \"All models are wrong but some are useful\" has been widely discussed."
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birthDate: "1919-10-18"
deathDate: "2013-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump