Ingram Olkin
is a Professor of Statistics and Education at Stanford University. Prior to this, he was on the faculty of Michigan State University and the University of Minnesota, where he served as Chair of the Department of Statistics. He has co written a number of books, including Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and its Applications (1979), Selecting and Ordering Populations (1980), Probability Models and Applications (1980), and Statistical Methods in Meta-Analysis (1985). Dr. Olkin has been an editor of the Annals of Statistics and an associate editor of Psychometrika, the Journal of Educational Statistics, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. He has also served as chair of the National Research Council’s Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics and as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has received an honorary D.Sci from DeMontfort University; a Lifetime Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 5; and a Wilks Medal from the American Statistical Association. His recent interest has been methodology for research synthesis, and he has published both theoretical and applied papers in medicine.
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