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George E. P. Box is R. A. Fisher Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin. He received the degrees of Ph.D and D.Sc. in mathematical statistics from the University of London and an Honorary D.Sc. from the University of Rochester. He has had many years of experience as a practicing statistician in the British Army and later in Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd and has served as a consultant to industry and government. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Wilks memorial medal of the American Statistical Association, the Shewhart medal of the American Society for Quality Control and the Guy medal in silver of the Royal Statistical Society. He is an author of over 200 published papers and of more than a dozen books.