Terry Speed remembering George E. P. Box, and the huge advances in statistics that resulted from work during the second World War

Terry Speed remembering George E. P. Box, and the huge advances in statistics that resulted from work during the second World War:

Commenting on Wallis’ 1980 JASA paper, F.J. Anscombe, a member of SR17, wrote, “the heart of Allen Wallis’s message is: ‘What a wonderful thing a statistical research group can be’.” He went on to say, “I believe our subject would be in better shape if we could return to a former tradition—if it were the usual practice for the most exciting new PhD’s to spend several years in a research team that had some definite mission, before, perhaps, re-entering the academic world.”

http://bulletin.imstat.org/2013/08/terence%E2%80%99s-stuff-statistics-and-the-war/

The Wallis paper is : http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.1980.10477469 available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2287451

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