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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: Ronald Fisher, Florence Nightingale, Francis Galton, William Sealy Gosset, Thomas Bayes, Karl Pearson, Frank Yates, William Petty, William Stanley Jevons, Richard Doll, I. J. Good, Tony Greenfield, Charles Spearman, James Jurin, Maurice Kendall, Arthur Young, John Kingman, Arthur Lyon Bowley, Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, M. S. Bartlett, David Cox, George Alfred Barnard, Harry Campion, Richard D. Gill, Gregory King, Richard Peto, Austin Bradford Hill, Harold Jeffreys, George E. P. Box, Derek Wanless, John Nelder, William Farr, Bernard Silverman, Major Greenwood, Reginald Punnett, Francis Anscombe, Steve Brooks, Dennis Lindley, David Spiegelhalter, William Fleetwood, Reginald Hawthorn Hooker, James Dodson, David George Kendall, Philip Dawid, Cedric Smith, Jack Hibbert, John Rickman, Gareth Roberts, Gilbert Walker, David Jesson, William Newmarch, Laurence Baxter, Egon Pearson, Norman Lloyd Johnson, Frank Duckworth, David V. Hinkley, John Graunt, George Paine, George Henry Wood, Florence Nightingale David, Benjamin Gompertz, Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett, Abraham Manie Adelstein, Edward Wakefield, D. G. Champernowne, Peter Armitage, Richard Samworth, Rosemary A. Bailey, Tony Lewis, Robin Plackett, E. C. Rhodes, Chris Holmes, Denis Sargan, Ethel M. Elderton, Julian Peto, Thomas A. Welton, Paul Fearnhead. Excerpt: Florence Nightingale OM, RRC (; historically; 12 May 1820 - 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing...
