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(1787–1872)
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787–1872), a French physician who studied medicine in Reims and Paris.
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis was the first to use certain mathematical methods to quantify variables of patients and their diseases. -
The disciples of Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
Among these disciples are Louis René and William Farr. These professionals elaborated the first epidemiological maps using quantitative methods of epidemiological analysis. Francis Galton, British statistician and polymath fue el primero en aplicar métodos estadísticos en el estudio de la herencia de la inteligencia y de las diferencias humanas. -
Pierre Simon Laplace and his Analytic Theory of Probabilities
He laid the foundations of analytic probability theory and suggested that probability analysis of the probabilities could be very useful to solve medical problems. -
Florence Nightingale: biostatistics and nursing
In the mid-nineteenth century, biostatistics was first applied in nursing. This happened thanks to the nurse,writer and statistician Florence Nightingale -
Biostatistics in the XX century
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William Heaton Hamer
Tried to explain the succession of measles epidemics by means of a discrete temporal model. -
PRESENT
Today, biostatistics has become a very important discipline for scientific advances, especially in the field of medicine.
The growth of quantitative methods has allowed the development of important studies in the areas of epidemiology and clinical trials.