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Subtitle: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Institute of Actuaries, Staple Inn Hall, Holborn, During the Session 1896-97General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1898Original Publisher: C ... Read more

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Originally published in 1892.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III.Religious Liberty. — The Divinity School. — The College Chapel. — The Dudleian Lectures.—The English Liturgy.IF, to civil liberty, Harvard at one time showed herself indifferent, in religious liberty she has taken the lead of all the older universities of the English-speaking race. Happily, even in her first charter, she was free from the predominance of any single church. Had the College been founded in Rhode Island, where Roger Williams and his followers gave the world the first example of a government founded on the principles of complete religious liberty, such freedom would not have been astonishing. In Plymouth, from the Pilgrim Fathers, the Separatists of England, the founders of the Independent Churches, some measure of tolerance might have been looked for. But in Boston, among the stern Puritans, where State and Church were one, where none but members of the Church were freemen of the State, who would not have expected to find President, Fellows, and students all bound fast by a rigid test? This freedom, it has been conjectured, was due rather to a careless feeling of security than to intention. The constitution of the Commonwealth itself might be trusted "to bind their souls with secular chains." If such was the security of the founders of Harvard College, they forgot that the charter of a colony was liable to change. Theirs was annulled by the tyranny of Charles II. in those evil daystowards the end of his reign, when Jeffreys, in his progress through English towns, was " making all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him." In the new charter, granted in 1692 by William and Mary, property, not church- membership, was made the qualification for a vote.1 The door, if not thrown open for the entrance of free thought, was, at all ev... ... Read more

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Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon PressPublication date: 1913Subjects: Porphyry, Saint, Bishop of Gaza, ca. 347-420Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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A special, one-time volume, commemorating the 80th birthday of George E.P. Box, "the guru of statistics" in quality, whose work on the subject has had a major impact on industry, government, and academia. ... Read more

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the insights of Box and statistical parodies of songs too
George Box is one of the statistical giants of the 20th Century. He started his career in chemical engineering in England where he learned the importance of experimental design and statistical methods. He came to the US in 1953 and spent time at North Carolina State College and later came back to be part of the statistics group at Princeton. After that he founded the Department fo Statistics at the University of Wisconsin. This history and other important career decisions icluding the founding of Technometrics are detailed in the brief section "My Professional Life" that he wrote for this volume.
Box's contributions to statistics are diverse and large. He developed many practical statistical designs including the central composite design. He is responsible for evolutionary operation and wrote a book on it with Norman Draper. He has also made major contributions to response surface methodology.

With Gwilym Jenkins he systematized the application of the ARIMA models and led the development of software for easy application of these model building techniques. He championed the concept of parsimonious models and insisted that model building should be an iterative and continually evolving technique. He contributed to the area of control through his stochastic time series models and found ways to incorporate it in manufacturing process control.

With David Cox he developed the Box-Cox family of transformations. These simple power transformation can be used to make the data have an approximate normal shape. he gave a prescription for how to estimate or pick the power to use based on the data.

These enormous contributions can be found in the volumes of collected works that Tiao and others have edited. His contributions can also be seen from his books on evolutionary operation, time series analysis, automated process control, empirical model building and response surfaces, and practical experimental designs ("Statistics for Experimenters").

However in the decades of the 80s and 90s from age 60 to 80, instead of retiring, George Box took on the challenge of developing a center for quality and productivity at the University of Wisconsin. This volme, edited by Tiao, Bisgaard, Hill, Pena and Stigler provides a collection of articles by Box. These are mostly articles written in the 1990s covering the subjects of A) continuous process improvement, B) designing experiments to gain quality information, C) sequential investigation and discovery (including response surface methods), D) quality control and E) learning how to identify and reduce variation or be less sensitive to it by constructing robust processes (i.e. processes not sensitive to minor changes in process parameters). The articles are mostly directed toward quality issues and are mostly articles that were published in the 1990s or 2000 with a few from the 80s. Some are important technical contributions but many are also very philosophical.

George Box is one of the great thinkers of the 20th century and his philosophy on statistics and scientific inference is as important as his many technical contributions. There are 46 articles in total 4 on topic A, 12 on B, 10 on C, 11 on D and 9 on E. Each topic area has a brief introduction identifying a unifying theme in the papers in that section.

Box has a terrific sense of humor that often comes out in his lectures and sometimes in his writings. One gets a good appreciation of it by reading the three songs on statistics that are included in Part F of the book. This is only a sample of several that he has written that are parodies of familiar tunes. Of these three my favorite is "There's no theorem like Bayes theorem" to the tune of "There's no business like show business."

There is a nice bibliography in the back of the book that is followed by a biography on Box and a list of his books and articles published between 1982 and 1999. This includes 3 books and 91 articles! Believe it or not he published even more in his earlier years.

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:No usurper!" The meeting-houses of the Nonconformists were pulled down. Thirty-nine years later Mrs. Delany wrote : " We were ushered into Oxford by ringing of bells, illuminations, squibs, crackers, and bonfires, and could willingly have spared all the bustle and roar of joy that surrounded us. It was all for his Majesty's coronation day."[Indorsed, "A pencil note f Wodebrook where he came in K. C.'s [Knight ley Chetwodes absence dining out."Not to disturb you in the good work of a Godfather nor spoil yr dinner, I onely design Mrs Chet- wode and you would take care not to be benighted ; but come when you will you shall be heartily welcome to my House. The children's Tutor is gone out and so there was no pen and ink to be had.Woodbrook, Nov' 6"' past one in the afternoon.[Indorsed, " This was my advice to a young Lady."I look [sic over the inclosed some time ago, andagain just now ; it contains many good Things, and wants many alterations. I have made one or two, and pointed at others, but an Author can only sett his own Things right.—Friday.[Per messenger.]Dublin. Decbr 3. 1714SR,—Mr Graves never came to me till this morning, like a vile Man as he is. I had no letters from Engld to vex me except on the publick Account; I am now teazed by an impertinent woman, come to renew her Lease, the Baron and she are talking together—I have just squired her down, and there is at present no body with me but—yes now Mr Wall [? Walls] is come in—and now another—you must stay ;—Now I am full of company again and the Baron is in hast,—I will write to you in a Post or two. Manly is not Commissnr nor expects it. I had a very ingenious Tory Ballad sent me printed, but receiving it in a Whig house I suddenly read it, and gave it to a Gentleman with a wink, and ordered ... ... Read more

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Publisher: London, New York [etc.] : H. FrowdePublication date: 1906Subjects: Head, Barclay Vincent, 1844-1914Numismatics, AncientNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more