Box & Lucas: Designed experiments for nonlinear models

Bradley Jones
Bradley Jones|May 20, 2013

All this month, I’m writing about George E.P. Box, as part of the celebration of the International Year of Statistics. Last week, I wrote about Box-Behnken designs for fitting response surface models. In this post, I want to tell you about the paper Box wrote in 1959 with H. L. [...]

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Celebrating George Box and Box-Behnken designs

Bradley Jones
Bradley Jones|May 13, 2013

As part of the International Year of Statistics, the JMP Blog is honoring influential statisticians each month. Professor George E.P. Box is the honoree for May. Last week, I wrote about on the first of his two-part paper with J. Stuart Hunter on the family of regular two-level fractional factorial [...]

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Celebrating statisticians: George E.P. Box

Bradley Jones
Bradley Jones|May 6, 2013

In this International Year of Statistics, we at JMP are celebrating famous statisticians on a monthly basis. This month is my turn, and early this year I chose Professor George E.P. Box as the subject of my celebration. I was looking forward to writing this piece because I knew George [...]

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Design of experiments -- on the rise and in the news

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|April 8, 2013

Nearly a century old, the technique of design of experiments (DOE) is more popular than ever at chemical and pharmaceutical companies. So says an article in Chemical and Engineering News by Rick Mullin that includes historical milestones, such as the contributions of R.A. Fisher and the late George E.P. Box [...]

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"Quality time" with the Ramírez family

Amy Bullock
Amy Bullock|April 5, 2013

Award-winning authors Brenda Ramírez and José G. Ramírez were our guests for the March installment of Analytically Speaking. If you missed their webcast, it’s now available on demand. During the interview, they discussed how traditional quality techniques – when updated with the latest advances in analytics and data visualization – [...]

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George Box: A remembrance

Bradley Jones
Bradley Jones|March 29, 2013

Today I mourn the passing of George Box, truly a giant among 20th century statisticians. Indeed, I should not relegate him to the 20th century because he won the Brumbaugh Award in 2010 and 2007 for writing papers that made in their year of publication the largest single contribution to [...]

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Celebrating Statisticians: J. Stuart Hunter

Mark Bailey
Mark Bailey|March 4, 2013

J. Stuart (“Stu”) Hunter is the statistician we are celebrating in the month of March in this International Year of Statistics. He is considered by many people to be one of the most important and influential statisticians of the last half century, especially with regard to applying statistics to problems [...]

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Quality by Design (QbD) using JMP

Brooke Fortson
Brooke Fortson|February 28, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with course developer and JMP instructor Heath Rushing to talk about his new course “Quality by Design (QbD) Using JMP Software.” This course focuses on how to establish a systematic approach to pharmaceutical development that is defined by Quality-by-Design principles using design [...]

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Definitive screening designs wow at Informex

Scott Wise
Scott Wise|February 26, 2013

Lou Valente showcased the new JMP design of experiments definitive screening designs to a rapt audience of chemists and chemical engineers at the Informex 2013 conference in Anaheim, CA, Feb. 19. This new class of DOE designs in JMP allows users to potentially gain more information from their experiments with [...]

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Why statistics is essential

John Sall
John Sall|January 14, 2013

Note: John Sall, co-founder and Executive VP of SAS, recently sat down to talk about why statistics matters and what the International Year of Statistics means. SAS is a participant in Statistics2013. Sall will talk further about statistics in a live webcast on Jan. 23 as part of the Analytically [...]

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