Index

Abraham, Annamma

Abraham, Bovas

Adair, John

Ahrend, Jürgen

Air pollution

Los Angeles

Alice in Wonderland

Alonso, Agustín

Altpeter, Roger J.

American Society for Quality Control (ASQC)

American Statistical Association (ASA)

president of

Andersen, Sigurd L.

Andrews, Horace P.

Anscombe, Francis J.

Army, British

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)

balls up

barrack huts

demobilization process

enlistment

Entertainments National Service Association

exercises

explosives

key man

knots and lashings

old sweat

Army, German

Sergeant Shultz

Army, United States

Army Research Office (ARO)

GIs in England

Arnold, Harvey

Arthur, Mary

Ashkenazy, Vladimir D.

Automatic optimization

self-optimizing reactor at Wisconsin

Axley, Ralph E.

Bacon, David W.

Bailey, Steven P.

Ballentyne, Ford

Banners (Mr. Marshall)

Barnard, George A.

at Princeton University

brilliant mathematician

consultant to ICI

house on Barnes Common

houseboat trips with Barnard family

initial meeting

Mill House

office at Imperial College

Research Committee of RSS

professor at Imperial College

professor at University of Essex

refused visa by FBI

Barnard, Mary

Barrios-Zamudio, Ernesto

Bartorelli's Restaurant

Basu, Asit P.

Bayes, Thomas

Bayes' theorem

BBC. See British Broadcasting Corporation

Beale, E.M.L.

Behnken, Anita

Behnken, Donald W.

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Bellingham, Bert

Belly dancing

Berlin, Irving

Berra, Yogi

Berthouex, P. Mac

collaboration with George Box

Madison Monitor, The

work in Nigeria

Berthouex, Susan J.

Beveridge, William H.

Bhattacharyya, Gouri K.

Big Davies

Biometrics

Birthday

eightieth

sixty fifth, letters

sixty-fifth

surprise party

twenty-first

Bisgaard, Søren

Bisgaard, Sue Ellen

Blackley, Lancashire, England

Bliss, Chester I.

Blue Knight, The

Bollinger, John G.

Bose, Chandra

Bounded adjustment charts

Box and Cox

Box, Claire Quist

builds a house

initial meeting

Quest program

work with AIDS patients

Box, Daisy. See Hoath, Daisy Box

Box, Eliza Jane

Box, Evelyn

Box, George (grandfather)

Box, George Herbert (uncle)

Box, Gladys Ingleton

Box, Harry (father)

Box, Harry C. (son)

author

becomes a pilot

cameraman, lighting technician

films CQPI short courses

train set

year in Essex, England

Box, Harry John Martin (“Jack”)

ham radio

Box, Helen E. (daughter)

born in England

making beer

physician

year in Essex, England

Box, Helen Martin (mother)

Box, Henry Pelham

Box, Jessie Ward

Box, Joan Fisher

writes R.A. Fisher The Life of a Scientist

Box, Joyce. See Daines, Joyce Box

Box, Lester

Box, Lina

Box, Michael

Box, Pelham Edward

Box, Roger

Box, Simon

Box, Stacey K.

Box-Behnken designs

Boy Electrician, The

Boys Night Out In

Brightlingsea, Essex, England

British Broadcasting Corporation

British Institute of Recorded Sound

Broadbalk agricultural experiment

Brown, R.G.

Brownlee, Kenneth Alexander

Brumbaugh Award

Bull, The

Burman, P.J.

Camera

Caplan, Frank

Cats

Annabelle

Bert

Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI)

1985 establishment

receptions

short course videotapes

short courses

Technical Reports

Chapman, Robin S.

Chemstrand Corporation

Chen, Gina Gee

Churchill, Winston

Clark, Mary Ann

Cleveland, William P.

Cobham

Street

Village

Cobham's Flying Circus

Cointegration

Cold War

Color blindness

Compleat Angler Hotel

Conchi

Connor, L.R.

Consulting work

Couper, David C.

Cox, David

Cox, Gertrude M.

as fund raiser

director of Institute of Statistics

editor of “Biometrics”

pioneer among women statisticians

CQPI. See Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI)

Cricket

Cullumbine, Dr. Harry

Culver Military Academy

Black Horse Troop

Daines, Alfred

Daines, Joyce Box

Daniel, Cuthbert

Daniel, Janet

Daniels, Henry E.

Darwin, Charles

Davies, O.L.

de Bono, Edward

Deming, W. Edwards

If Japan Can, Why Can't We?

Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments

Dickens, Charles

Dodge, Harold F.

Doll, Richard

Drake, Francis

at Point Reyes

at Santander, Spain

Draper, Norman R.

co-author

summer student at ICI

DuPont Company

Durbin, James

Dye, Robert

Education

B. Sc. in statistics

chemistry

County School for Boys

disrupted by World War II

external degree, London University

Gillingham Technical College

grounding in the sciences

Intermediate Science Exam

mathematics courses

Ph.D. exam

Ph.D. thesis

scholarship

second form

University College

Efron, Bradley

Einstein, Albert

Eliot, T.S.

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen

Epidiascope

Escorial, El

Essex, England

Hill family

European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics

Evolutionary Operation

Experimental design

in Japanese industry

in the Army

teaching

Exponentially weighted moving average

External degree. See Education

Factorial design

paper helicopter

Fingerprints

Finney, David J.

Finster, Mark P.

Fisher, George

Fisher, Harry

Fisher, Ronald Aylmer

British doctors' study on smoking

fiducial inference

influenced by Gosset

invents experimental design

invents Latin Square

randomization

Statistical Methods for Research Workers

Studies in Crop Variation

visit while in the Army

visits North Carolina State University

Fog

Gravesend

Manchester

Ford Foundation

Ford Motor Company

Ford, Edmund Brisco “Henry”

Forecasting

Franco, Francisco

Fraser, D.J.

Frey, Anthony L.

Friedman, Jerome H.

Friedman, Milton

Fung, Conrad A.

on Bill Hunter

Gaddum, John H.

Galton, Francis

Gasses, Toxic

shells

soldier-volunteers

testing

World War II

Gaumnitz, Erwin A.

Gauss, Christian

Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich

Geisser, Seymour

General Electric Company

Geometry

$n$-dimensional

George's Column

Gershwin, George

Gilbert and Sullivan

Goon Show

Gordon Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Gordon, Neal E.

Gosset, William S.

t-test

Graphical analysis

Gravesend, Kent, England

Grubbs, Frank

Gunter, Bert

Gurland, John

Guttman, Irwin

Hamming, Walter J.

Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England

Harris, Bernard

Hart, Lorenz

Hartley, Herman Otto

Harvard Business School

visiting professor

Hau, Grace

Hau, Ian

Haugh, Jane

Haugh, Larry D.

Hester, Muriel

Hill, Bradford

Hill, William J.

Hoadley, A. Bruce

Hoath, Daisy Box

Hoeffding, Wassily

Hogg, Robert V.

Holden-Day, Inc.

Holmes, Terry

Holt, Charles C.

Homewood, Margaret

Hotelling, Howard

Hougen, Olaf A.

Houseboat trips

Høyland, Arnljot

Høyland, Liv

Hunter, Edna M. (Tady)

Hunter, J. Stuart

as driving instructor

first Statistician in Residence

first U.S. student

initial meeting

working on Statistics for Experimenters

Hunter, John J.

Hunter, Judith T.

Hunter, Justin M.

Hunter, William G.

arrives in Madison

becomes director of CQPI

collaboration with Mac Berthouex

First Street Garage project

gifted teacher

in Singapore

initial meeting

letter to George

Madison leaf collection survey

quality improvement class in Madison

remembered

teaching factorial design

tour of Motorola

working on Statistics for Experimenters

Île de France

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)

bus journeys to and from work

Dyestuffs Division

experimental design

Intelligence Department

leaving for North Carolina

Miscellaneous Chemicals Division

Statistical Methods Panel

stories and jokes

summer student

Improving Almost Anything: Ideas and Essays

Innovation

analogy

Bisgard's definition

cross-functional discussion

inductive-deductive process

lateral thinking

leadership

Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award

Intervention analysis

Iowa State University

Department of Statistics

Ishikawa, Kaoru

Japan

1986 trip

Japanese industry

attitude toward workers

post World War II

quality control

surpasses U.S.

Jenkins, Gwilym M.

establishes own company

first contact

Jenkins, Margaret B. (Meg)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Johnson, Richard A.

Joiner, Brian L.

Joiner, David

Joiner, Kevin

Joiner, Laurel W. (Laurie)

Jones, Stephen

Juran, Joseph J.

Kackar, Raghu

Kahlil, Alex

Kanemasu, Hiro

Kano, Noriaki

Kean, Joan

Kendall, Maurice G.

Kenney, Harold

Keswick, Cumbria, England

Lake District

Kish, Leslie

Kleene, Steven C.

Klotz, Jerome H.

Kotnour, Kenneth D.

Kramer, Timothy T.

Lancaster, Lancashire, England

summers with Jenkins family

Langer, Rudolph E.

Lawrence, Gertrude

Ledolter, Johannes

Lindley, Dennis V.

Little Davies

Little, Kevin

Liu, Lon-Mu

Ljung, Greta M.

Ljung-Box test

London University. See Education

Lucas, H.L. “Curly”

Luceño, Alberto

Luceño-Ros, Alberto

Luceño-Ros, Marian

MacGregor, John F.

Macleod, Norman

Madison Area Quality Improvement Network

Madison, Wisconsin

quality improvement initiatives

Mallows, Colin L.

Manchester, England

MAQIN. See Madison Area Quality Improvement Network

Maravall, Agustín

Martin, Keziah Hills

Masefield, John E.

Sea Fever

Mashed Potato Club

Mathematics

part of the basis for statistics

Maxwell, June

McGowan, Harry Duncan

Meeter, Duane A.

Meinwald, Jerrold

Military Air Transport Service (MATS)

Miller, Glenn

Monday Night Beer Session

Fauerbach beer

multi-disciplinary approach

Most powerful tests

Mosteller, C. Frederick

Muller, Mervin E.

Multivariate analysis

Munster Lager. See Raubkammer

Murtha, Andrew J.

Murtha, Isaac A.

Murtha, Thomas J.

Music

in childhood

jazz band during World War II

learning to play guitar

playing guitar in Pensacola

playing the piano

Muth, John F.

Nair, Vijay

Narasimhan, Surendar

National Science Foundation

Nelder, John A.

Newbold, Paul

Neyman-Pearson theory

Nicastro, Brent

Non-parametric tests

North Carolina

buying a car

learning about U.S. culture

learning to drive

piano

North Carolina State University

Institute of Statistics

Visiting Research Professor

Oakeshott, S.H.

Öller, Katerina

Öller, Lars-Erik

Oxford University

Jesus College

Pack, David

Pagel, Judith

Pallesen, Lars C.

Paniagua-Quiñones, Carmen

Paper helicopter

Parties

at home in Gravesend

Christmas

Pearson, Egon S.

Pearson, Karl

Peña Sanchez de Rivera, Daniel

Pender, James

Pender, Kevin

Pender, Margaret

Peterson, Emily

Phadke, Madhav

Picnics

Pierce, David A.

Pike, Frederick Philips

Plackett, Robin L.

Plays. See also Shows

in French class

role of the porter in Macbeth

Poems

Porter, Cole

Porter, Warren P.

Porton Down

Chemical Defence Experimental Station

Potter, Kenneth

Practice generating theory

examples

Prat, Albert

Price, Richard

Princeton University

Gauss House

IBM 650 computer

meeting Bill Hunter

meeting John Tukey

Statistical Techniques Research Group (STRG)

Theobald Smith House

Process control

Pubs

Lancaster

Pukkila, Tarmo

Quality control charts

rethinking

Quality Engineering

Quality Quandaries

Queen Mary, RMS

Quigley, Stephen H.

Radio

crystal

Raiffa, Howard

Raleigh, North Carolina

Ramírez, José

Rationing

during World War II

post World War II

Raubkammer

German Chemical Warfare Experimental Station

Reinsel, Gregory C.

Reith, John

Response surface methodology

Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses

Retirement

letters

Riordan, Frank S.

Robustness

Roig, Tina

Ros, Marian

Rothamsted Experimental Station

Roussas, George G.

Royal Air Force

Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAFS)

Royal Navy

Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS)

Royal Society of London

becoming a fellow

Royal Statistical Society

meetings

Research Committee

Rubin, Donald B.

Sale, England

Salford Technical College

Salisbury Plain

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Sandland, Ron

Scheffé, Henry

Schlaifer, Robert

Scholtes, Peter R.

Sedransk, Joseph H.

Sensenbrenner, F. Joseph

Sewage treatment

activated sludge process

assistant chemist

first published paper

Shain, Irving

Shewhart, Walter A.

Shoemaker, Anne

Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin

Short courses

CQPI

with Stu Hunter

with Stu Hunter and George Tiao

Shows

Cinderella

You've Had It

Shube, Beatrice

Skits

Smith, Smudger

Smoking

Snedecor, George W.

Snee, Ronald D.

Songs

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Closet that Holds Up the John, The

Experiment

I Am the Very Model of a Professor Statistical

Let's Go Robust

Marching through Georgia

The Chairman's Lot is Not a Happy One

There's No Theorem Like Bayes' Theorem

Southward, G. Morris

Spencer, Mr. (headmaster)

Sredni, Jacob

Stansted Hall

Statistical Control by Monitoring and Adjustment

Statistical Methods in Research and Production

Statistical Methods Panel. See Imperial Chemical Industries

Statistical significance

Statistician in Residence Program. See University of Wisconsin Department of Statistics

Statistics

as a field separate from mathematics

as catalyst to scientific method

evolution of the field

teaching

technometrics

Statistics for Experimenters

second edition

Spanish translation

Steinberg, David

Stigler, Stephen M.

Stone, Mervyn

Taguchi Methods

Taguchi, Genichi

Taguchi, Kumiko

Taguchi, Shin

Taylor, Mark

Taylor, Richard

Tea

Technometrics

evolution of the journal

Thain, Jean

Thames River

Tiao, George C.

Los Angeles air pollution data

Tilbury, Essex, England

Time series

ARIMA models

estimation using Bayes' theorem

multiple

non-stationary

seasonal

stationary

Time Series Analysis

Forecasting and Control

impact

Tippett, L.H.C.

Tort-Martorell Llabrés, Xavier

Toyota

1986 visit

innovation

Transformation

Box and Cox paper

Travels

Bulgaria

Dominica

Egypt

England

Finland

Indonesia

Israel

Italy

Norway

Point Reyes National Seashore

Spain

Sweden

U.S. west

Tsay, Ruey S.

Tukey, John W.

Turner, Joe

Tyssedal, John Sølve

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

University of Essex

studying Fisher's early papers

visiting professor

University of King Carlos III

honorary doctorate

University of Wisconsin

Computer Science Department

initial contact

Mathematics Research Center

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

University of Wisconsin Department of Statistics

1960 founding date

courses

first students

initial faculty members

locations

moves to theoretical approach

Statistical Consulting Laboratory

Statisticians in Residence Program

1970s' students

Van Horn, Lisa

van Ryzin, John R.

Variance component models

Vasa

Wahba, Grace

Wald, Abraham

Wallace, Alfred R.

Wallis, W. Allen

Water quality engineering

Watergate Hearings

Watson, Geoffrey S.

Watts, Donald G.

Weiner, Sidney

Wetz, John M.

Whitwell, John C.

Wichern, Dean W.

Wilcoxon, Frank

non-parametric tests

Wilcoxon, Fredericka

Wiley. See John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Wilkes, Samuel S.

Wilkinson, Graham

Willy (uncle)

Wilson, K.B.

response surface methodology

Winters, Peter R.

Wold, Herman O.A.

Wold, Svante

Woodall, William H.

World War

Adolph Hitler

air raids

Allied Forces

impact on Germany

Phoney War

V-E Day

Wu, C.F. Jeff

Wu, Shien-Ming (Sam)

Wuerger, William W.

Yates, Frank

Youden, William J.

Young, H. Edwin

Yule, George Udny

Zarwell, William F.

Zellner, Arnold