Florence Nightingale

M. Stone

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 171-175 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Nightingale—a “Passionate Statistician” rather than the “Lady with the Lamp”—was driven by the scandalous legacy of the Crimean War to use statistical weapons in her fight for hospital reform.

Keywords: Passionate Statistician; Statistician Today; British Empiricist; Surgical Audit; Statistical Weapon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_35

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