Math Trek Math Florence Nightingale: The passionate statistician She pioneered the use of applied statistics to develop policy and developed novel ways of displaying them. By Julie Rehmeyer November 26, 2008 at 4:13 pm Share this:FacebookTwitterPocketRedditPrintEmail This article is only available to Science News subscribers. Subscribers, enter your e-mail address to access our archives. Client key* E-mail* Log in Not a subscriber? Science News is a nonprofit. Support us by subscribing now. Subscribe