统计学早已被广泛应用于社会的各个领域,但鲜有人注意到统计和战争的关系,这看似风马牛不相及的两者却有着常人难以想象的紧密关系。统计学的普遍应用改变了现代战争模式,解决了无数原本难以突破的军事难题。利用统计学来扭转战争形势的案例不胜枚举,可以毫不夸张地说,现代战争若要赢得胜利,必须先掌握统计学。早在第一次世界大战前,统计学已经开始在战争中应用,在1854年的克里米亚战争中,战地护士 Statistics have long been widely used in various fields of society. However, few people have noticed the relationship between statistics and warfare. The seemingly irrelevant relationship between the two has an unimaginable and intimate relationship with ordinary people. The widespread application of statistics has changed the pattern of modern warfare and solved numerous military problems that were difficult to break through. There are countless cases of using statistical statistics to reverse the war situation. It is no exaggeration to say that in order to win victory in modern warfare, we must first master statistics. As early as before the First World War, statistics had begun to be used in the war. During the Crimean War of 1854, field nurses