Mathematician:Frank Yates

Mathematician

English pioneer of $20$th century statistics.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: 12 May 1902 in Manchester, England
• Died: 17 June 1994 in Harpenden, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Yates Analysis
• Yates's Correction for Continuity
• Fisher-Yates Shuffle (with Ronald Aylmer Fisher)

• Fisher-Yates Test (with Ronald Aylmer Fisher), also known as:

Fisher's Exact Test (for Ronald Aylmer Fisher)

the Fisher-Irwin Test (for Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Joseph Oscar Irwin)

Definitions of concepts named for Frank Yates can be found here.

Publications

• 1937: The design and analysis of factorial experiments (Technical Communication no. 35 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Soils) (alternatively attributed to the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science).

• 1938: Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research (with Ronald Aylmer Fisher)
  • 1963: Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research (6th edition) (with Ronald Aylmer Fisher)

• 1949: Sampling methods for censuses and surveys

• Computer programs GENFAC, RGSP, Fitquan.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Frank Yates": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Yates, Frank (1902-94)