Frank Yates

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Frank Yates

Frank Yates at the statistics conference at the Blue Ridge Assembly in Asheville, NC during the summer of 1952.
Born(1902-05-12)12 May 1902
Died17 June 1994(1994-06-17) (aged 92)
EducationSt John's College, Cambridge
Years active1933-1968

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

First Class Honours degree.[1][2]

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]

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Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
President of the British Computer Society

1960–1961
Succeeded by