George E. P. Box: Practice

George E. P. Box was British statistician. Explore interesting quotes on practice.

George E. P. Box: 28 quotes 1 like

“For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.”

George E. P. Box

Source: Science and Statistics (1976), p. 792

World , Reality

“One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.”

George E. P. Box

Source: Science and Statistics (1976), p. 791

Motivation , Idea , Learning , Science

“Statistical criteria should (1) be sensitive to change in the specific factors tested, (2) be insensitive to changes, of a magnitude likely to occur in practice, in extraneous factors.”

George E. P. Box

G.E.P Box (1955); cited in: JOC/EFR (2006) " George Edward Pelham Box http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Box.html" at history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk, Nov 2006.

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“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.”

George E. P. Box

Source: Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (1987), p. 74

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