George E. P. Box
From BillionQuotes
(Redirected from George Box)
George E. P. Box, Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin
"All models are wrong. Some are useful."
Sometimes seen as: "All models are false but some models are useful."
The remark has two phrasings, both of which appear in George E.P. Box & Norman R. Draper, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (Wiley 1987) pp. 74 and 424: "Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful."; "Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
