Frank Yates FRS (12 May 1902 – 17 June 1994) was an English statisticians who was one of the pioneers of 20th-century statistics.
Biography
Yates was born in Manchester, England, the eldest of five children (and only son) of seed merchant and botanist Percy Yates and his wife Edith. He attended Wadham House, a private school, before gaining a scholarship to Clifton College in 1916. In 1920, he obtained a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge, and four years later graduated with a First Class Honours degree.