[R] EEG data for time series

[Bert Gunter]

Ben:

 My recollection is that it was an answer to a question he received
from the audience at a (JSM? Gordon Conference? Other ...?)
presentation.  For obvious reasons, it stuck with me, but I can't do
better than that. I'm pretty sure it was in the mid to late 1990's
when John Tukey was still alive, because I remember thinking about
George's reply in light of Tukey's pioneering efforts to raise the
profile of statistical graphics, which had fallen into relative
disfavor during the 1960's - 1980's first wave of statistical software
development (contrary views welcome!).  Tukey's work and hi-res
graphics software changed all that of course!

BTW, another favorite Box quote, which I know I heard in a class from
him in the 70's at U of W  (he may have said/written it elsewhere,
too) that deserves to be remembered was:

"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific
learning process."

Best,
Bert


On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bert Gunter <gunter.berton <at> gene.com> writes:
>
>>
>> (Sorry, failed to cc the list)
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter <at> gene.com> wrote:
>>
>
>   [snip]
>
>>
>>  But quoting George Box (from a long time ago) on the same sort of
>>  query for a much different problem: "Well, of course the first thing
>>  to do is graph the hell out of it."
>
>   Great quote.  Do you have a source for this, or is it anecdotal
> (I'd still use it, but having an attribution would be wonderful)?
> Googling '"graph the hell out of it" box'
> mostly comes up with this post ...
>
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