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 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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French JMP users meet near Marseille

Frank Baudet
Frank Baudet|April 23, 2013

The plan was for French JMP users to meet in the south of France, which is usually a very pleasant place in April. Unfortunately, this year was simply cold and rainy, but that did not keep JMP users from gathering in Marseille. The users were welcomed by Jean-Francois Christaud, Device [...]

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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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Celebrating statisticians: More on Gertrude Cox

Helena Hoen
Helena Hoen|April 3, 2013

Gertrude Cox is indeed an influential statistician worthy of recognition in this International Year of Statistics. She was also part of my family, my maternal grandmother’s sister. I decided one day to learn more about her and spent numerous hours in the North Carolina University Library Archives where a colleague [...]

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Celebrating statisticians: Gertrude Cox

Michael Crotty
Michael Crotty|April 1, 2013

This month, we celebrate Gertrude Mary Cox, one of the pioneers of academic statistics departments in the United States and one of the first female statisticians. She has been dubbed the “First Lady of Statistics.” Her efforts were fundamental to the development of the vibrant statistics community in the Research [...]

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Why JMP users love statistics

Arati Mejdal
Arati Mejdal|March 18, 2013

This is just out on our YouTube channel: a new video for the International Year of Statistics. The video features several JMP users who talk about the value of statistics to engineers and chemists and in industries such as pharma and education. Watch it, and you’ll also hear from John Sall, [...]

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We don’t need another hero … or do we?

Richard Zink
Richard Zink|March 6, 2013

Those of us who grew up in the 1980s are likely very familiar with Tina Turner’s song from the soundtrack of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the inspiration for the title of today’s post. If not, here is your opportunity to catch up. Now that we’re all on the same page, [...]

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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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Celebrating statisticians: Florence Nightingale

Laura Lancaster
Laura Lancaster|February 4, 2013

This month we have chosen Florence Nightingale as an influential statistician to celebrate for the International Year of Statistics. While Florence Nightingale is most well-known as the founder of modern nursing and worldwide healthcare reform, she was also a passionate statistician and a pioneer in statistical graphics. Florence Nightingale was born on [...]

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