Dear Faculty and Students,Florence Nightingale, Statistician...Happy Birthday
May 12th is Florence Nightingale's 197th birthday. Nurses and researchers world wide should celebrate her as a "Compassionate Statistician". Students should learn about her skills with research methods.
We are with the library of Alexandria and have established the first free Research methods library. This has 1000s of online research methods, and will have close to 10,000 books available for use. Florence Nightingales statistical work will be prominently on display.
We are contacting those interested in Florence Nightingale to see if you could help "spread the word" of Florence Nightingale the statistician, the importance of statistics for Nursing and of course her birthday. As we have been developing the Library we have become very impressed with Florence Nightingale, the Statistician. We all know her for modernizing nursing. However, many do not know that she was one of the most famous important statistical experts. She developed statistical technologies and data visualization techniques that are still in use today and was the first women inducted into the Royal Statistical Society.
We are encouraging all Nurses and Students to read about her at:https://plus.maths.org/content/florence-nightingale-compassionate-statistician.
By the time of her birthday on May 12, we would appreciate if you would distribute this note to list servers, universities, nursing journals and magazines and especially nursing students. We want as many as possible to know about her statistical approach to nursing. We feel that every nurse in the world should have a degree of statistics Literacy. If you would like to join us to share statistical knowledge, please contact me at ronaldlaporte@gmail.com
If you need statistics help, come visit us at the library of alexandria http://ssc.bibalex.org/helpdesk/introduction.jsf
Thank you
Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus and Former Director WHO Collaborating Centre University of Pittsburgh, and the Library of Alexandria Team Egypt (ronaldlaporte@gmail.com, 7249349023)
Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D., Director, Library of Alexandria
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". (WHO)
Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Emeritus Director WHO Collaborating Center
Professor Emeritus Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Telephone home 724 934 9023 Mobile 724 759 3283
Global Health, So Near, So Far
Supercourse Project - www.pitt.edu/~super1
Science Supercourse - ssc.bibalex.org
Research Methods Library of Alexandria - http://ssc.bibalex.org/helpdesk/introduction.jsf
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) African Networks - http://afn.bibalex.org/GeneralPortal.aspx
BA Euclid Statistical Matrix - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ResearchMethods/StatisticsMatrix.htm
Central Asian Journal of Global Health - cajgh.pitt.edu/
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Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh
ronaldlaporte@gmail.com724 934 9023
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