Ingram Olkin | |
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.jpg) Ingram Olkin in 1986 | |
| Born | July 23, 1924 |
| Died | April 28, 2016 (aged 91) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Columbia University City College of New York |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | S. N. Roy |
| Doctoral students | |
Ingram Olkin (July 23, 1924 – April 28, 2016) was a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is known for developing statistical analysis for evaluating policies, particularly in education, and for his contributions to meta-analysis, statistics education, multivariate analysis, and majorization theory.