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Abstract
George Box was an enthusiastic Bayesian, yet much of his published work is frequentist. This paper speculates about how he reconciled this seeming tension.
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Joseph B. Kadane
Joseph B. Kadane is Leonard J. Savage University Professor of Statistics and Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.S. (cum laude) in Mathematics from Harvard College in 1962, and his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 1966. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include the foundations of statistics, statistical methodology, and applications in law, medicine, chemistry, physics, internet security and archeology. His most recent book is Principles of Uncertainty, published by Chapman and Hall in 2011, and free on the web.