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Evolutionary Operation: A Statistical Method for Process Improvement by George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper
Evolutionary Operation (EVOP), is a simple but powerful statistical tool with wide application in business. What originally motivated the introduction of EVOP, was the idea that the widespread and daily use of simple statistical design and analysis during routine production by process operatives themselves could reap enormous additional rewards.

An Accidental Statistician: The Life and Memories of George E. P. Box by George E. P. Box
From early childhood to a celebrated career in academia and industry, acclaimed statistician George E.P. Box offers personal insights and a first-hand account of his professional accomplishments in this insightful memoir. It features thoughts from more than a dozen researchers and practitioners on how Box shaped their careers; previously unpublished photos from Box’s personal collection; and Forewords written by two of Box’s closest colleagues and confidants. An Accidental Statistician is a charming, intimate account of a great intellect’s life that will appeal to math and engineering professionals.

Teaching Engineers Experimental Design With a Paper Helicopter by George E. P. Box
How a helicopter (made in with a regular sheet of paper) can be used to teach principles of experimental design including - conditions for validity of experimentation, randomization, blocking, the use of factorial and fractional factorial designs...

What Can You Find Out From 8 and 16 Experimental Runs? by George E. P. Box
Includes two articles on options for designed experiments. Design of Experiments is a tools used heavily in Six Sigma programs.

An Accidental Statistician by George E. P. Box, R.A. Fisher
"At one point I was having trouble with a statistical problem. A very senior scientist suggested that I contact R. A. Fisher, who asked me to come and see him. The Army did not know how to send a sergeant to see a professor, so they made a railway warrant that said I was taking a horse to Cambridge. It was a beautiful day. Fisher said "let's go and sit under that tree in the orchard, I'll look up the probits and you look up the reciprocals". The specific problem was soon solved and set me thinking about estimating data transformations."

Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method by George E. P. Box
Explores the implications raised when Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is considered, as was originally intended as a statistical technique for the catalysis of iterative learning.

William G. Hunter: An Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement by George E. P. Box
This is the text of a talk given at the Speakers' Dinner at the Sixth Annual William G. Hunter Conference on Quality in Madison, Wisconsin, on June 2, 1993. In it, George Box recalls Bill Hunter's pivotal role in the birth of the quality movement in the c

Do Interactions Matter? by George E. P. Box
"It has recently been argued that in an industrial setting the detection and elucidation of interactions between variables is unimportant. In this report the contrary view is advanced and is illustrated with examples."

The Art of Discovery by George E. P. Box, John Hunter
Quotes by George Box in the video: “The scientific method is how we increase the rate at which we find things out.” “I think the quality revolution is nothing more, or less, than the dramatic expansion of the of scientific problem solving using informed observation and directed experimentation to find out more about the process, the product and the customer.” “Tapping into resources: Every operating system generates information that can be used to improve it. Everyone has creativity. Designed experiments can greatly increase the efficiency of experimentation."

Some Problems of Statistics and Everyday Life by George E. P. Box
"The wise investigator expends his effort not in one grand design... but in a series of small designs, analysing, modifying and getting new ideas as he goes."

Robustness in the Strategy of Scientific Model Building by George E. P. Box
"All models are wrong but some are useful ... The iterative building process for scientific models can take place over short or long periods of time. ... It should be remembered that just as the Declaration of Independance promises the pursuit of happiness rather than happiness itself, so the iterative scientific model building process offers only the pursuit of the perfect model."

Statistics for Discovery by George E. P. Box
This report explores why investigators in engineering and the physical sciences rarely use statistics. It is argued that statistics has been overly influenced by mathematical methods rather than the scientific method and consequently the subject has been greatly skewed towards testing rather than discovery.

What Can You Find Out From 12 Experimental Runs? by George E. P. Box, Soren Bisgaard
Examines the possibilities of factorially designed experiments using many variables at once.

How to Get Lucky by George E. P. Box
"Some principles for success in quality improvement projects discuss, in particular, how to encourage die discovery of useful phenomena not initially being sought. A graphical version of the analysis of variance which can help show up the unexpected is illustrated with two examples."

The Scientific Context of Quality Improvement by George E. P. Box, Soren Bisgaard
Scientific method is a key ingredient in the new philosophy of quality and productivity improvement. This paper provides an overview. A discussion of new ideas of how to design quality into products and processes is provided and Taguchi's work is evaluated.