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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