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In 1931 he was appointed assistant statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station by Ronald Fisher. In 1933 he became head of statistics when Fisher obtained a position at University College London. At Rothamsted he worked on the design of experiments, including contributions to the theory of analysis of variance and originating Yates' algorithm and the balanced incomplete block design. 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Buildings near the manor house The Rothamsted Experimental Station, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is located at Harpenden in Hertfordshire, England. ... Sir Ronald Fisher Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British eugenicist, evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... The first statistician to consider a methodology for the design of experiments was Sir Ronald A. Fisher. ... In statistics, analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a collection of statistical models and their associated procedures which compare means by splitting the overall observed variance into different parts. ...

During World War II he worked on what would later be called operational research. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others. ... Operations research, operational research, or simply OR, is the use of mathematical models, statistics and algorithms to aid in decision-making. ...

After the war he worked on sample survey design and analysis. He became an enthusiast of electronic computers, in 1954 obtaining an Elliott 401 for Rothamsted and contributing to the initial development of statistical computing. In 1966 he was awarded a Royal Medal from the Royal Society. He retired from Rothamsted in 1968 and became a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Sampling is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of concern, especially for the purposes of statistical inference. ... A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions known as a program. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Imperial College London is one of the colleges of the University of London (although negotiations with regard to its withdrawal from the University are underway) and primarily focuses on science, engineering and medicine, complemented by a business school. ...

Publications included:

• 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 Ronald Fisher)
• Sampling methods for censuses and surveys (1949)
• Computer programs GENFAC, RGSP, Fitquan.

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References

• The IMS Bulletin Vol. 23, No. 5, 1994, 528-529.

External links

• Frank Yates