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The United Nations General Assembly agreed last June celebrate the October 20 first ' World Statistics Day '. And when something does not work we set out to "celebrate" the Day; the art of lying without being noticed so necessary in all areas: according to the latest statistics ... need to celebrate their day, and in the Institutes and not impart Statistics as optional a Bachelor in , pleasantly remember the last course that I taught, when, without the pressure of the selectivity, enjoy making surveys, selecting samples that were reliable Organizing and resent the data with the Excel spreadsheet, setting out in class work and, above all, drawing conclusions, which is the most interesting part of this work.
I taught to manipulate graphs to give information or the contrary, we saw how to develop a survey based on the answers we wanted to get, want to include verifications reveal that the thymus of correlations - especially in the field so Medicine major, looking for errors in print, ... Today, although the programming of Mathematical Statistics course appears on all levels makes the final agenda so you never have time for it, in the computer age that we streamlined the tedious calculations of Statistics needs is at least we are working in the classroom: future citizens who use it without a basic training that will develop a critical spirit.

My conclusion will be to pay my debt with the first woman to statistical hundred years after his death, because I always wanted to echo his work on this blog: Florence Nightingale the first woman admitted to the Royal Statistical British Society, and honorary member of the American Statistical Association .

By 1840 Florence Nightingale begged her parents to let her study mathematics, but his mother did not approve of this idea. Although his father loved mathematics and had instilled this love for his daughter, lintentó to explore topics more appropriate for a woman, was a pupil of Sylvester, who developed the theory of invariants with Cayley, influenced by Quetelet , the mathematician who must BMI (also called index Quetelec) then applied his knowledge of statistics to study the "average man " , but we can not only consider this heroine the first woman to apply statistics to save lives in the Crimean War nurse from his post, but it did was a respectable profession, emphasizing education as a pillar of health improvement wrote about two hundred treaties and reports that have affected this improvement: len military health, social care in India, civilian hospitals, the medical statistics and in assisting the sick. His greatest contribution was the creation of educational of new institutions for medical training both military and hospital nurses.


... "I've never been able to share - write - prejudice on indolence, sensuality and the ineptitude of soldier. On the contrary, I think [...] I've never known a people so receptive and attentive like the army. If offered the opportunity to send money home quickly and safely [...] they will. If you are offered a school, attend classes. Give them a book, game and a magic lantern stop drinking. " ..

Goldie S., 1987. Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester University Press.
reading rooms in the barracks, training of nurses, making this a worthy profession for hitherto prevailed nurse stereotype of drunken, ignorant created by Charles Dickens.

As a woman who had to face the constraints of gender, as e ducadora, as nurse and as a statesman hat to me this heroine of how little we know, a visit for its museum in London will allow us to admire The Lady of the Lamp imagining afternoon wanderings succor the sick and providing some light to the darkness in which humanity wander.


2010 has been declared International Year of the Nurse to vindicate the important role in the history of this mujer.Esta into the woman I want to dedicate to a nurse and also Brave: my sister Montse, who like Florence, I would like to call the Lady of the Lamp, I follow your light comforting.

Links:

• http://eueflo.blogspot.com/ (The Basque Museum of the History of Medicine at the UPV / EHU exposed until December 31, 2010 Florence Nightingale. The Lady with the Lamp. Maestra in the art of caring , shows various objects related to the woman ahead of her time.)

• http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/nightins.PDF (an affectionate biography from the Nursing).

• http://www.astroseti.org/articulo/3755/biografia-de-florence-nightingale (a biography from the statistics, this explains their contribution to this field noveosa ... "wounded soldiers had a seven times more likely to die in the hospital for a disease that die in battlefield. While in Turkey, Nightingale collected data and organized a system to record and this information was later used as a tool for better military hospitals and the city. The Nightingale math skills became evident when the data used I had collected to calculate the rate of mortality in the hospital. These calculations showed that an improvement on using health methods, produce a decrease in the number of deaths. By February 1855 the mortality rate had fallen from 60% to 42.7%. By establishing a source of drinking water and using his own money to buy fruit, vegetables and hospital equipment for the following spring, the rate had fallen another 2.2%.
  
  
  Nighingale used this statistical information to create your Polar area diagram, or 'coxcombs' as he called it. These were used to give a graphical representation of mortality rates during the Crimean War (1854-1856).
  The colored area of \u200b\u200beach wedge, measured from the center is proportional to the statistic it represents. Blue represents the outside

  deaths ... preventable infectious diseases

  mitigated or, in other words, diseases like cholera and typhoid. The red central pieces show deaths from all other causes. Deaths in the British field hospitals peaked in January 1855 when 2,761 soldiers died of contagious diseases, wounds 83 and 324 from other causes, with a total of 3168 deaths. The average man in the Army that month was 32 393. Using this information, Nightingale calculated a mortality rate of 1 174 per 10 000, of which 1 023 per 10 000 were due to diseases infeccionsas. To have continued well and without the frequent replacement of troops, then the diseases themselves have completely finished with the British Army in Crimea ... "

• http://letrinaheridos.blogspot.com/ 2010/10/una-historia-de-matematicas-la.html (an interesting story about John Snow an English physician who lived between 1813 and 1858, which is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology and I use the graphical representation of the frequency of occurrence of an event .).