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href="/wiki/File:GeorgeEPBox.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/GeorgeEPBox.jpg/200px-GeorgeEPBox.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="301" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/GeorgeEPBox.jpg/300px-GeorgeEPBox.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/GeorgeEPBox.jpg/400px-GeorgeEPBox.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1267" data-file-height="1905" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1919-10-18</span>)</span>18 October 1919<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Gravesend,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravesend, Kent">Gravesend, Kent</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">28 March 2013<span style="display:none">(2013-03-28)</span> (aged 93)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Madison,_Wisconsin" title="Madison, Wisconsin">Madison, Wisconsin</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>“<a href="/wiki/All_models_are_wrong" title="All models are wrong">All models are wrong</a>”</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Response-surface_methodology" class="mw-redirect" title="Response-surface methodology">Response-surface methodology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EVOP" title="EVOP">EVOP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-exponential_distribution" title="Q-exponential distribution">q-exponential distribution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Jenkins" class="mw-redirect" title="Box–Jenkins">Box–Jenkins method</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Cox_transformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Box–Cox transformation">Box–Cox transformation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Power_transform#Box-Tidwell_transformation" title="Power transform">Box–Tidwell transformation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Behnken_design" title="Box–Behnken design">Box–Behnken design</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Cox_distribution" title="Box–Cox distribution">Box–Cox distribution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Muller_transform" title="Box–Muller transform">Box–Muller transform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Pierce_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Box–Pierce test">Box–Pierce test</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box%27s_M_test" title="Box's M test">Box's M test</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ljung%E2%80%93Box_test" title="Ljung–Box test">Ljung–Box test</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shewhart_Medal" title="Shewhart Medal">Shewhart Medal</a> <small>(1968)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilks_Memorial_Award" title="Wilks Memorial Award">Wilks Memorial Award</a> <small>(1972)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._A._Fisher_Lectureship" class="mw-redirect" title="R. A. Fisher Lectureship">R. A. Fisher Lectureship</a> <small>(1974)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a> <small>(1985)</small><sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Medal" title="Guy Medal">Guy Medal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(silver, 1964) (Gold, 1993)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Box_Medal" title="George Box Medal">George Box Medal</a> <small>(2003)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Statistics" title="Statistics">Statistics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Chemical_Industries" title="Imperial Chemical Industries">ICI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i> Departures from Independence and Homoskedasticity in the Analysis of Variance and Related Statistical Analysis </i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1953)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egon_Pearson" title="Egon Pearson">Egon Pearson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herman_Otto_Hartley" title="Herman Otto Hartley">H. O. Hartley</a><sup id="cite_ref-mathgene_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mathgene-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_F._MacGregor" title="John F. MacGregor">John F. MacGregor</a><sup id="cite_ref-mathgene_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mathgene-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Greta_M._Ljung" title="Greta M. Ljung">Greta M. Ljung</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>George Edward Pelham Box</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of <a href="/wiki/Quality_control" title="Quality control">quality control</a>, <a href="/wiki/Time-series_analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="Time-series analysis">time-series analysis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Design_of_experiments" title="Design of experiments">design of experiments</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bayesian_inference" title="Bayesian inference">Bayesian inference</a>. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century". He is famous for the quote "<a href="/wiki/All_models_are_wrong" title="All models are wrong">All models are wrong</a> but some are useful".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_early_life">Education and early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_E._P._Box&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education and early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born in <a href="/wiki/Gravesend,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravesend, Kent">Gravesend, Kent</a>, England. Upon entering university he began to study <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>, but was called up for service before finishing. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, he performed experiments for the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a> and obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics. He received a <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a> in 1953, under the supervision of <a href="/wiki/Egon_Pearson" title="Egon Pearson">Egon Pearson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Herman_Otto_Hartley" title="Herman Otto Hartley">HO Hartley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mathgene_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mathgene-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mactutor_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mactutor-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_and_research">Career and research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_E._P._Box&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career and research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1948 to 1956, Box worked as a statistician for <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Chemical_Industries" title="Imperial Chemical Industries">Imperial Chemical Industries</a> (ICI). While at ICI, he took a leave of absence for a year and served as a visiting professor at <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_State_University" title="North Carolina State University">North Carolina State University</a> at Raleigh. He later went to <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> where he served as Director of the Statistical Research Group. </p><p>In 1960, Box moved to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> to create the Department of Statistics. In 1980, he was named Vilas Research Professor of Statistics, which is the highest honor given to a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Box and Bill Hunter co-founded the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Box officially retired in 1992, becoming an <a href="/wiki/Emeritus_professor" class="mw-redirect" title="Emeritus professor">emeritus professor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Box published books including <i>Statistics for Experimenters</i> (2nd ed., 2005), <i>Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control</i> (4th ed., 2008, with <a href="/wiki/Gwilym_Jenkins" title="Gwilym Jenkins">Gwilym Jenkins</a> and Gregory C. Reinsel) and <i>Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis.</i> (1973, with <a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Tiao&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Tiao (page does not exist)">George Tiao</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_E._P._Box&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Box served as president of the <a href="/wiki/American_Statistical_Association" title="American Statistical Association">American Statistical Association</a> in 1978 and of the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Mathematical_Statistics" title="Institute of Mathematical Statistics">Institute of Mathematical Statistics</a> in 1979. He received the <a href="/wiki/Shewhart_Medal" title="Shewhart Medal">Shewhart Medal</a> from the <a href="/wiki/American_Society_for_Quality_Control" class="mw-redirect" title="American Society for Quality Control">American Society for Quality Control</a> in 1968, the <a href="/wiki/Wilks_Memorial_Award" title="Wilks Memorial Award">Wilks Memorial Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/American_Statistical_Association" title="American Statistical Association">American Statistical Association</a> in 1972, the <a href="/wiki/R._A._Fisher_Lectureship" class="mw-redirect" title="R. A. Fisher Lectureship">R. A. Fisher Lectureship</a> in 1974, and the <a href="/wiki/Guy_Medal" title="Guy Medal">Guy Medal</a> in Gold from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Statistical_Society" title="Royal Statistical Society">Royal Statistical Society</a> in 1993. Box was elected a member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1974 and a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society_elected_in_1985" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1985">Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His name is associated with results in statistics such as <a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Jenkins" class="mw-redirect" title="Box–Jenkins">Box–Jenkins</a> models, <a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Cox_transformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Box–Cox transformation">Box–Cox transformations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Behnken_design" title="Box–Behnken design">Box–Behnken designs</a>, and others. Additionally, Box famously wrote, in various books and papers, that "<a href="/wiki/All_models_are_wrong" title="All models are wrong">all models are wrong</a>, but some are useful".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_E._P._Box&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Box married Jessie Ward in 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1959, Box married Joan Fisher, the second of <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Fisher" title="Ronald Fisher">Ronald Fisher's</a> five daughters. In 1978, Joan Fisher Box published a biography of <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Fisher" title="Ronald Fisher">Ronald Fisher</a>, with substantial collaboration with Box.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Box married Claire Louise Quist in 1985. </p><p>Box died on 28 March 2013. He was 93 years old.<sup id="cite_ref-frs_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JMPBlog_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMPBlog-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_E._P._Box&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Selected publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Box, G.E.P, <a href="/wiki/David_Cox_(statistician)" title="David Cox (statistician)">Cox, D.R.</a> (1964) "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/users/cox/cox72.pdf">An Analysis of Transformations</a>". <i>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society</i>. 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Box</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project" title="Mathematics Genealogy Project">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Julian Champkin, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/4566511/George-Box-1919-2013-a-wit-a-kind-man-and-a-statistician.html">George Box, (1919-2013): a wit, a kind man and a statistician</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140815231232/http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/4566511/George-Box-1919-2013-a-wit-a-kind-man-and-a-statistician.html">Archived</a> 15 August 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>", <i><a href="/wiki/Significance_(magazine)" title="Significance (magazine)">Significance</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMorris_H._DeGroot1987" class="citation journal cs1">Morris H. 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P. Box (1919-2013)"</a>. The Aperiodical.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=George+E.+P.+Box+%281919-2013%29&rft.pub=The+Aperiodical&rft.date=2013-04-05&rft.au=Colin+Beveridge&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Faperiodical.com%2F2013%2F04%2Fgeorge-e-p-box-1919-2013%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+E.+P.+Box" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mactutor-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mactutor_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'ConnorRobertson" class="citation cs2">O'Connor, John J.; <a href="/wiki/Edmund_F._Robertson" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund F. Robertson">Robertson, Edmund F.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Box.html">"George E. P. 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(1976), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Ian.Jermyn/philosophy/writings/Boxonmaths.pdf">"Science and Statistics"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>, <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Statistical_Association" title="Journal of the American Statistical Association">Journal of the American Statistical Association</a></i>, <b>71</b> (356): <span class="nowrap">791–</span>799, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F01621459.1976.10480949">10.1080/01621459.1976.10480949</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+the+American+Statistical+Association&rft.atitle=Science+and+Statistics&rft.volume=71&rft.issue=356&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E791-%3C%2Fspan%3E799&rft.date=1976&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F01621459.1976.10480949&rft.aulast=Box&rft.aufirst=G.+E.+P.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-sop.inria.fr%2Fmembers%2FIan.Jermyn%2Fphilosophy%2Fwritings%2FBoxonmaths.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+E.+P.+Box" class="Z3988"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoxDraper1987" class="citation cs2">Box, G. 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(1987), <i>Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces</i>, <a href="/wiki/John_Wiley_%26_Sons" class="mw-redirect" title="John Wiley & Sons">John Wiley & Sons</a>, pp. 74, 274, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780471810339" title="Special:BookSources/9780471810339"><bdi>9780471810339</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Empirical+Model-Building+and+Response+Surfaces&rft.pages=74%2C+274&rft.pub=John+Wiley+%26+Sons&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=9780471810339&rft.aulast=Box&rft.aufirst=G.+E.+P.&rft.au=Draper%2C+N.+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+E.+P.+Box" class="Z3988"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoxHunterHunter2005" class="citation cs2">Box, G. 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Snedecor">George W. Snedecor</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Kuznets" title="Simon Kuznets">Simon Kuznets</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_S._Wilks" title="Samuel S. Wilks">Samuel S. Wilks</a> (1950)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lowell_Reed" title="Lowell Reed">Lowell Reed</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aryness_Joy_Wickens" title="Aryness Joy Wickens">Aryness Joy Wickens</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Gemmell_Cochran" title="William Gemmell Cochran">William Gemmell Cochran</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall_(statistician)" title="Herbert Marshall (statistician)">Herbert Marshall</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ralph_J._Watkins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ralph J. Watkins (page does not exist)">Ralph J. Watkins</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Mary_Cox" title="Gertrude Mary Cox">Gertrude Mary Cox</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_R._Leonard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William R. Leonard (page does not exist)">William R. Leonard</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_E._Hoadley" title="Walter E. Hoadley">Walter E. Hoadley</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rensis_Likert" title="Rensis Likert">Rensis Likert</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_H._Hansen" title="Morris H. Hansen">Morris H. Hansen</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_R._Gainsbrugh" title="Martin R. Gainsbrugh">Martin R. Gainsbrugh</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Hauser" title="Philip Hauser">Philip Hauser</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raymond_T._Bowman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raymond T. Bowman (page does not exist)">Raymond T. Bowman</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_H._Bowker" title="Albert H. Bowker">Albert H. Bowker</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._Allen_Wallis" title="W. Allen Wallis">W. Allen Wallis</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_F._Stephan" title="Frederick F. Stephan">Frederick F. Stephan</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Mosteller" title="Frederick Mosteller">Frederick Mosteller</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_H._Moore" title="Geoffrey H. Moore">Geoffrey H. Moore</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._Ross_Eckler" title="A. Ross Eckler">A. Ross Eckler</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=T._A._Bancroft&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="T. A. Bancroft (page does not exist)">T. A. Bancroft</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Churchill_Eisenhart" title="Churchill Eisenhart">Churchill Eisenhart</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Shaw" title="William H. Shaw">William H. Shaw</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clifford_G._Hildreth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clifford G. Hildreth (page does not exist)">Clifford G. Hildreth</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Cornfield" title="Jerome Cornfield">Jerome Cornfield</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lester_Frankel" title="Lester Frankel">Lester Frankel</a> (1975)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franklin_A._Graybill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Franklin A. Graybill (page does not exist)">Franklin A. Graybill</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Kish" title="Leslie Kish">Leslie Kish</a> (1977)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">George E. P. Box</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herman_Otto_Hartley" title="Herman Otto Hartley">Herman Otto Hartley</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_E._Martin" title="Margaret E. Martin">Margaret E. Martin</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_A._Bradley" title="Ralph A. Bradley">Ralph A. Bradley</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Kruskal" title="William Kruskal">William Kruskal</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Loree_Anderson" title="Richard Loree Anderson">Richard Loree Anderson</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=I._Richard_Savage&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="I. Richard Savage (page does not exist)">I. Richard Savage</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Neter" title="John Neter">John Neter</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Marquardt" title="Donald Marquardt">Donald Marquardt</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_A._Bailar" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbara A. Bailar">Barbara A. Bailar</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_V._Hogg" title="Robert V. Hogg">Robert V. Hogg</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_L._Norwood" title="Janet L. Norwood">Janet L. Norwood</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Barabba" title="Vincent Barabba">Vincent Barabba</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Zellner" title="Arnold Zellner">Arnold Zellner</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Wallman" title="Katherine Wallman">Katherine Wallman</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Stuart_Hunter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. Stuart Hunter (page does not exist)">J. Stuart Hunter</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_L._Iman" title="Ronald L. Iman">Ronald L. Iman</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell_H._Gail" title="Mitchell H. Gail">Mitchell H. Gail</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynne_Billard" title="Lynne Billard">Lynne Billard</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jon_R._Kettenring&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jon R. Kettenring (page does not exist)">Jon R. Kettenring</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_S._Moore" title="David S. Moore">David S. Moore</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jonas_H._Ellenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jonas H. Ellenberg (page does not exist)">Jonas H. Ellenberg</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._Michael_O%27Fallon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. Michael O'Fallon (page does not exist)">W. Michael O'Fallon</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_L._Scheaffer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard L. Scheaffer (page does not exist)">Richard L. Scheaffer</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Miron_L._Straf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Miron L. Straf (page does not exist)">Miron L. Straf</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_L._Mason_(statistician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert L. Mason (statistician) (page does not exist)">Robert L. Mason</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradley_Efron" title="Bradley Efron">Bradley Efron</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Scheuren" title="Fritz Scheuren">Fritz Scheuren</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sallie_Ann_Keller" title="Sallie Ann Keller">Sallie Ann Keller</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Bock" title="Mary Ellen Bock">Mary Ellen Bock</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_A._Lachenbruch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter A. Lachenbruch (page does not exist)">Peter A. Lachenbruch</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sally_C._Morton" title="Sally C. Morton">Sally C. Morton</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sastry_G._Pantula&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sastry G. Pantula (page does not exist)">Sastry G. Pantula</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Geller" title="Nancy Geller">Nancy Geller</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_N._Rodriguez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert N. Rodriguez (page does not exist)">Robert N. Rodriguez</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Davidian" title="Marie Davidian">Marie Davidian</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel_Schenker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nathaniel Schenker (page does not exist)">Nathaniel Schenker</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_R._Morganstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David R. Morganstein (page does not exist)">David R. Morganstein</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Utts" title="Jessica Utts">Jessica Utts</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_D._Nussbaum" title="Barry D. Nussbaum">Barry D. Nussbaum</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Morrissey_LaVange" title="Lisa Morrissey LaVange">Lisa Morrissey LaVange</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karen_Kafadar" title="Karen Kafadar">Karen Kafadar</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wendy_L._Martinez" title="Wendy L. Martinez">Wendy L. Martinez</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Santos" title="Robert Santos">Robert Santos</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathy_Ensor" title="Kathy Ensor">Kathy Ensor</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionne_Price" title="Dionne Price">Dionne Price</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madhumita_Ghosh_Dastidar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Madhumita Ghosh Dastidar (page does not exist)">Madhumita Ghosh Dastidar</a> (2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ji-Hyun_Lee_(statistician)" title="Ji-Hyun Lee (statistician)">Ji-Hyun Lee</a> (2025)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Guy_Medallists67" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Guy_Medal" title="Template:Guy Medal"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Guy_Medal" title="Template talk:Guy Medal"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Guy_Medal" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Guy Medal"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Guy_Medallists67" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Medal" title="Guy Medal">Guy Medallists</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Gold_medallists67" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Gold medallists</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Booth_(philanthropist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Booth (philanthropist)">Charles Booth</a> (1892)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Giffen" title="Robert Giffen">Robert Giffen</a> (1894)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jervoise_Athelstane_Baines" title="Jervoise Athelstane Baines">Jervoise Athelstane Baines</a> (1900)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ysidro_Edgeworth" title="Francis Ysidro Edgeworth">Francis Ysidro Edgeworth</a> (1907)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Craigie" title="Patrick Craigie">Patrick G. Craigie</a> (1908)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udny_Yule" title="Udny Yule">G. Udny Yule</a> (1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._H._C._Stevenson" title="T. H. C. Stevenson">T. H. C. Stevenson</a> (1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_William_Flux" title="Alfred William Flux">A. William Flux</a> (1930)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Lyon_Bowley" title="Arthur Lyon Bowley">A. L. Bowley</a> (1935)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_Greenwood" title="Major Greenwood">Major Greenwood</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Fisher" title="Ronald Fisher">R. A. Fisher</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Bradford_Hill" title="Austin Bradford Hill">A. Bradford Hill</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egon_Pearson" title="Egon Pearson">E. S. Pearson</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Yates" title="Frank Yates">Frank Yates</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Jeffreys" title="Harold Jeffreys">Harold Jeffreys</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerzy_Neyman" title="Jerzy Neyman">Jerzy Neyman</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Kendall" title="Maurice Kendall">M. G. Kendall</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Bartlett" title="M. S. Bartlett">M. S. Bartlett</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harald_Cram%C3%A9r" title="Harald Cramér">Harald Cramér</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Cox_(statistician)" title="David Cox (statistician)">David Cox</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Alfred_Barnard" title="George Alfred Barnard">G. A. Barnard</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._G._D._Allen" title="R. G. D. Allen">Roy Allen</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_George_Kendall" title="David George Kendall">D. G. Kendall</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Daniels_(statistician)" title="Henry Daniels (statistician)">Henry Daniels</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Benjamin" title="Bernard Benjamin">Bernard Benjamin</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Plackett" title="Robin Plackett">Robin Plackett</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Armitage_(statistician)" title="Peter Armitage (statistician)">Peter Armitage</a> (1990)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">George E. P. Box</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Whittle_(mathematician)" title="Peter Whittle (mathematician)">Peter Whittle</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Healy_(statistician)" title="Michael Healy (statistician)">Michael Healy</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Lindley" title="Dennis Lindley">Dennis Lindley</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Nelder" title="John Nelder">John Nelder</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Durbin" title="James Durbin">James Durbin</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._R._Rao" title="C. R. Rao">C. R. Rao</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kingman" title="John Kingman">John Kingman</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradley_Efron" title="Bradley Efron">Bradley Efron</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Smith_(statistician)" title="Adrian Smith (statistician)">Adrian Smith</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Buckland" title="Stephen Buckland">Stephen Buckland</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Spiegelhalter" title="David Spiegelhalter">David Spiegelhalter</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Reid" title="Nancy Reid">Nancy Reid</a> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Silver_medallists67" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Silver medallists</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Glover_(statistician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Glover (statistician) (page does not exist)">John Glover</a> (1893)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Augustus_Sauerbeck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Augustus Sauerbeck (page does not exist)">Augustus Sauerbeck</a> (1894)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Lyon_Bowley" title="Arthur Lyon Bowley">A. L. Bowley</a> (1895)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=F._J._Atkinson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="F. J. Atkinson (page does not exist)">F. J. Atkinson</a> (1897)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._S._Loch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="C. S. Loch (page does not exist)">C. S. Loch</a> (1899)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Crawford_(statistician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Crawford (statistician) (page does not exist)">Richard Crawford</a> (1900)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_A._Welton" title="Thomas A. Welton">Thomas A. Welton</a> (1901)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Hawthorn_Hooker" title="Reginald Hawthorn Hooker">R. H. Hooker</a> (1902)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yves_Guyot" title="Yves Guyot">Yves Guyot</a> (1903)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._A._Thomas" title="D. A. Thomas">D. A. Thomas</a> (1904)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Henry_Rew" title="R. Henry Rew">R. H. Rew</a> (1905)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._H._Shaw&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. H. Shaw (page does not exist)">W. H. Shaw</a> (1906)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=N._A._Humphreys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="N. A. Humphreys (page does not exist)">N. A. Humphreys</a> (1907)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Brabrook" title="Edward Brabrook">Edward Brabrook</a> (1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Wood_(statistician)" title="George Henry Wood (statistician)">G. H. Wood</a> (1910)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=R._Dudfield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. Dudfield (page does not exist)">R. Dudfield</a> (1913)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._Rowson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="S. Rowson (page does not exist)">S. Rowson</a> (1914)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Chapman_(economist)" title="Sydney Chapman (economist)">S. J. Chapman</a> (1915)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Shield_Nicholson" title="Joseph Shield Nicholson">J. S. Nicholson</a> (1918)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Stamp,_1st_Baron_Stamp" title="Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp">J. C. Stamp</a> (1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_William_Flux" title="Alfred William Flux">A. William Flux</a> (1921)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_William_Macrosty" title="Henry William Macrosty">H. W. Macrosty</a> (1927)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethel_Newbold" title="Ethel Newbold">Ethel Newbold</a> (1928)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Edward_Soper" title="Herbert Edward Soper">H. E. Soper</a> (1930)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._H._Jones_(economist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. H. Jones (economist) (page does not exist)">J. H. Jones</a> (1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Charles_Snow" title="Ernest Charles Snow">Ernest Charles Snow</a> (1935)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_George_Hawtrey" title="Ralph George Hawtrey">R. G. Hawtrey</a> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._C._Ramsbottom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="E. C. Ramsbottom (page does not exist)">E. C. Ramsbottom</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Isserlis" title="Leon Isserlis">L. Isserlis</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hector_Leak" title="Hector Leak">H. Leak</a> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Kendall" title="Maurice Kendall">M. G. Kendall</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Campion" title="Harry Campion">Harry Campion</a> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=F._A._A._Menzler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="F. A. A. Menzler (page does not exist)">F. A. A. Menzler</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Bartlett" title="M. S. Bartlett">M. S. Bartlett</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Oscar_Irwin" title="Joseph Oscar Irwin">J. O. Irwin</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._H._C._Tippett" title="L. H. C. Tippett">L. H. C. Tippett</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_George_Kendall" title="David George Kendall">D. G. Kendall</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Daniels_(statistician)" title="Henry Daniels (statistician)">Henry Daniels</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Alfred_Barnard" title="George Alfred Barnard">G. A. Barnard</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._C._Fieller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="E. C. Fieller (page does not exist)">E. C. Fieller</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Cox_(statistician)" title="David Cox (statistician)">D. R. Cox</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandurang_Vasudeo_Sukhatme" title="Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme">P. V. Sukhatme</a> (1962)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">George E. P. Box</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._R._Rao" title="C. R. Rao">C. R. Rao</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Whittle_(mathematician)" title="Peter Whittle (mathematician)">Peter Whittle</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Lindley" title="Dennis Lindley">Dennis Lindley</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Plackett" title="Robin Plackett">Robin Plackett</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Durbin" title="James Durbin">James Durbin</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Nelder" title="John Nelder">John Nelder</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Armitage_(statistician)" title="Peter Armitage (statistician)">Peter Armitage</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Healy_(statistician)" title="Michael Healy (statistician)">Michael Healy</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=M._Stone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="M. Stone (page does not exist)">M. Stone</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kingman" title="John Kingman">John Kingman</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wynn" title="Henry Wynn">Henry Wynn</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_Besag" title="Julian Besag">Julian Besag</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_C._Gittins" title="John C. Gittins">J. C. Gittins</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._Bissell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. Bissell (page does not exist)">A. Bissell</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._Pridmore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. Pridmore (page does not exist)">W. Pridmore</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Peto" title="Richard Peto">Richard Peto</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Copas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Copas (page does not exist)">John Copas</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Aitchison" title="John Aitchison">John Aitchison</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Kelly_(mathematician)" title="Frank Kelly (mathematician)">F. P. Kelly</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Clayton" title="David Clayton">David Clayton</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=R._L._Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. L. Smith (page does not exist)">R. L. Smith</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Nicholas_Curnow" title="Robert Nicholas Curnow">Robert Nicholas Curnow</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Smith_(statistician)" title="Adrian Smith (statistician)">A. F. M. Smith</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Spiegelhalter" title="David Spiegelhalter">David Spiegelhalter</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Silverman" title="Bernard Silverman">B. W. Silverman</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steffen_Lauritzen" title="Steffen Lauritzen">Steffen Lauritzen</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Diggle" title="Peter Diggle">Peter Diggle</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Goldstein" title="Harvey Goldstein">Harvey Goldstein</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Green_(statistician)" title="Peter Green (statistician)">Peter Green</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Gilks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walter Gilks (page does not exist)">Walter Gilks</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Dawid" title="Philip Dawid">Philip Dawid</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hand_(statistician)" title="David Hand (statistician)">David Hand</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanti_Mardia" title="Kanti Mardia">Kanti Mardia</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Donnelly" title="Peter Donnelly">Peter Donnelly</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_McCullagh" title="Peter McCullagh">Peter McCullagh</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Titterington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Titterington (page does not exist)">Michael Titterington</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howell_Tong" title="Howell Tong">Howell Tong</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gareth_Roberts_(statistician)" title="Gareth Roberts (statistician)">Gareth Roberts</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Richardson" title="Sylvia Richardson">Sylvia Richardson</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iain_M._Johnstone" title="Iain M. Johnstone">Iain M. Johnstone</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Gavin_Hall" title="Peter Gavin Hall">P. G. Hall</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Firth_(statistician)" title="David Firth (statistician)">David Firth</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_D._Ripley" title="Brian D. Ripley">Brian Ripley</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jianqing_Fan" title="Jianqing Fan">Jianqing Fan</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_C._Davison" title="Anthony C. Davison">Anthony Davison</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Reid" title="Nancy Reid">Nancy Reid</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Shephard" title="Neil Shephard">Neil Shephard</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_B%C3%BChlmann" title="Peter Bühlmann">Peter Bühlmann</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Murphy" title="Susan Murphy">Susan Murphy</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arnaud_Doucet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arnaud Doucet (page does not exist)">Arnaud Doucet</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=H%C3%A5vard_Rue&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Håvard Rue (page does not exist)">Håvard Rue</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Fearnhead" title="Paul Fearnhead">Paul Fearnhead</a> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Bronze_medallists67" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Bronze medallists</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Gemmell_Cochran" title="William Gemmell Cochran">William Gemmell Cochran</a> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=R._F._George&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. F. George (page does not exist)">R. F. George</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._J._Jennett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. J. Jennett (page does not exist)">W. J. Jennett</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Armitage_(statistician)" title="Peter Armitage (statistician)">Peter Armitage</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Durbin" title="James Durbin">James Durbin</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=F._Downton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="F. Downton (page does not exist)">F. Downton</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Plackett" title="Robin Plackett">Robin Plackett</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=M._C._Pike&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="M. C. Pike (page does not exist)">M. C. Pike</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=P._G._Moore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="P. G. Moore (page does not exist)">P. G. Moore</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._J._Bartholomew" title="D. J. Bartholomew">D. J. Bartholomew</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=G._N._Wilkinson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="G. N. Wilkinson (page does not exist)">G. N. Wilkinson</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._F._Bissell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. F. Bissell (page does not exist)">A. F. Bissell</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=P._L._Goldsmith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="P. L. Goldsmith (page does not exist)">P. L. Goldsmith</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Smith_(statistician)" title="Adrian Smith (statistician)">A. F. M. Smith</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Dawid" title="Philip Dawid">Philip Dawid</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._M._F._Smith" title="T. M. F. Smith">T. M. F. Smith</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._J._Fox&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. J. Fox (page does not exist)">A. J. Fox</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._J._Pocock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="S. J. Pocock (page does not exist)">S. J. Pocock</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_McCullagh" title="Peter McCullagh">Peter McCullagh</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Silverman" title="Bernard Silverman">Bernard Silverman</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Spiegelhalter" title="David Spiegelhalter">David Spiegelhalter</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Forbes_Hendry" title="David Forbes Hendry">D. F. Hendry</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Green_(statistician)" title="Peter Green (statistician)">Peter Green</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._C._Darby" class="mw-redirect" title="S. C. Darby">S. C. Darby</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Gore" class="mw-redirect" title="S. M. Gore">S. M. Gore</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerie_Isham" title="Valerie Isham">Valerie Isham</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=M._G._Kenward&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="M. G. Kenward (page does not exist)">M. G. Kenward</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Jennison&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="C. Jennison (page does not exist)">C. Jennison</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Tawn" title="Jonathan Tawn">Jonathan Tawn</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=R._F._A._Poultney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. F. A. Poultney (page does not exist)">R. F. A. Poultney</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iain_M._Johnstone" title="Iain M. Johnstone">Iain M. Johnstone</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._N._S._Matthews&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. N. S. Matthews (page does not exist)">J. N. S. Matthews</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gareth_Roberts_(statistician)" title="Gareth Roberts (statistician)">Gareth Roberts</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=D._Firth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="D. Firth (page does not exist)">D. Firth</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=P._W._F._Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="P. W. F. Smith (page does not exist)">P. W. F. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Forster&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. Forster (page does not exist)">J. Forster</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Wakefield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. Wakefield (page does not exist)">J. Wakefield</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Nason" title="Guy Nason">Guy Nason</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geert_Molenberghs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Geert Molenberghs (page does not exist)">Geert Molenberghs</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Lynn_(statistician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Lynn (statistician) (page does not exist)">Peter Lynn</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicky_Best" title="Nicky Best">Nicola Best</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Brooks_(statistician)" title="Steve Brooks (statistician)">Steve Brooks</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Stephens_(statistician)" title="Matthew Stephens (statistician)">Matthew Stephens</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Fearnhead" title="Paul Fearnhead">Paul Fearnhead</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiona_Steele" title="Fiona Steele">Fiona Steele</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Holmes_(mathematician)" title="Chris Holmes (mathematician)">Chris Holmes</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Omiros_Papaspiliopoulos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (page does not exist)">Omiros Papaspiliopoulos</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicolai_Meinshausen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicolai Meinshausen (page does not exist)">Nicolai Meinshausen</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Samworth" title="Richard Samworth">Richard Samworth</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Piotr_Fryzlewicz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Piotr Fryzlewicz (page does not exist)">Piotr Fryzlewicz</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ming_Yuan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ming Yuan (page does not exist)">Ming Yuan</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jinchi_Lv" title="Jinchi Lv">Jinchi Lv</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yingying_Fan" title="Yingying Fan">Yingying Fan</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peng_Ding&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peng Ding (page does not exist)">Peng Ding</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jonas_Peters_(statistician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jonas Peters (statistician) (page does not exist)">Jonas Peters</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rachel_McCrea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rachel McCrea (page does not exist)">Rachel McCrea</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_E._Jacob&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pierre E. 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Jacob</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajan_Shah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rajan Shah (page does not exist)">Rajan Shah</a> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" aria-labelledby="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957661#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata2705" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div 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