Frank Yates
Frank Yates | |
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Born | 12 May 1902 |
Died | 17 June 1994 | (aged 92)
Education | St John's College, Cambridge |
Years active | 1933-1968 |
Frank Yates FRS (12 May 1902 – 17 June 1994) was one of the pioneers of 20th-century statistics.[1][2][3]
Biography
Yates was born in
He spent two years teaching
civil servant. This marriage was dissolved in 1933, and he later married Prascovie (Pauline) Tchitchkine, previously the partner of Alexis Tchitchkine. After her death in 1976, he married Ruth Hunt, his long-time secretary.[1][2]
In 1931, Yates was appointed assistant statistician at
Rothamsted Experimental Station by R.A. Fisher. In 1933, he became head of statistics when Fisher went to University College London. At Rothamsted he worked on the design of experiments, including contributions to the theory of analysis of variance, as well as developing Yates's algorithm and the balanced incomplete block design.[1][2][3]
During World War II he worked on what would later be called operations research.[1][3]
After WWII, he worked on
statistical computing.[1][2][3] During 1960–61, he was President of the British Computer Society, succeeding the founding president and computer pioneer, Maurice Wilkes. In 1960, he was awarded the Guy Medal in Gold of the Royal Statistical Society and, in 1966, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.[1][2] He retired from Rothamsted to become a senior research fellow at Imperial College London.[1][2] He died in 1994, aged 92, in Harpenden.[1]
Selected publications
- The design and analysis of factorial experiments, Technical Communication no. 35 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Soils (1937) (alternatively attributed to the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science).
- Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research (1938, coauthor R.A. Fisher): sixth edition, 1963
- Sampling methods for censuses and surveys (1949)
- Computer programs GENFAC, RGSP, Fitquan.
See also
References
- ^ S2CID 26871863.
- ^ a b c d e f g O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frank Yates", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ a b c d Neider, John (1994), "Obituary: Frank Yates: 1902–1994", The IMS Bulletin, 23 (5): 529–530[dead link]