[SI-LIST] Re: DesignCon quote
- From: "Richard Schumacher" <schumach@xxxxxx>
- To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:56:09 -0600
Here's a reference to an even older citation, which I can't now check:
"[George] Box used it as a heading in a book chapter in 1979. Here is =
the
citation:
Box, G.E.P., Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, in
Robustness in Statistics, R.L. Launer and G.N. Wilkinson, Editors. 1979,
Academic Press: New York."
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Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: DesignCon quote
I found a slightly different citation on WikiQuote, which suggests =
George
Box and Norman Draper had two phrasings in their book Empirical
Model-Building and Response Surfaces (Wiley 1987):
"Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how=20
wrong do they have to be to not be useful."
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
I don't have a copy of this book to confirm the citation, but it seems =
like
most folks cite Box as the originator of the quote in this general =
timeframe
(late-80's).
Wherever it came from, I like it...
Pat
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