specifically statistics

How Did Florence Nightingale Use Statistics?

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How Did Florence Nightingale Use Statistics? Nightingale set about collecting statistics in Crimea. She treated this activity—counting the number of soldiers killed, injured or diseased—in the same way biologists collected specimens of butterflies and fossils on field trips. How did Florence Nightingales education affect her math career? By Sally Lipsey Reprinted with permission of the

Was Florence Nightingale The First Statistician?

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Was Florence Nightingale The First Statistician? Nightingale was elected the first female member of the Statistical Society (now the Royal Statistical Society) in 1858, just two years after returning from the Crimea. Her influence on nursing and the presentation of statistics was profound. Who developed statistics? The birth of statistics is often dated to 1662,