What is Ingram Olkin?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Ingram Olkin | image = Ingram Olkin (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Ingram Olkin in 1986 | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|7|23|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Waterbury, Connecticut]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{death date and age |2016|04|28 |1924|07|23}} | death_place = [[Palo Alto, California]], U.S. | nationality = American | fields = [[Statistics]] | workplaces = [[Stanford University]] | alma_mater = [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]<br>[[Columbia University]]<br>[[City College of New York]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Samarendra Nath Roy|S. N. Roy]] <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | doctoral_students = [[Leon Gleser]]<br>[[Larry V. Hedges]] | known_for = | awards = }} '''Ingram Olkin''' (July 23, 1924 &ndash; April 28, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] professor. He was the professor emeritus and chair of [[statistics]] and education at [[Stanford University]] and the [[Stanford Graduate School of Education]]. He was known for creating statistical analysis for evaluating policies, such as in education, and for his works to [[meta-analysis]], [[statistics education]], [[multivariate analysis]], and [[majorization]] theory. Olkin died from complications of [[colorectal cancer]] at his home in [[Palo Alto, California]] on April 28, 2016, aged 91.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2016/05/04/ingram-olkin-influential-stanford-professor-statistics-education-dies-91/|title=Ingram Olkin, influential Stanford professor of statistics and education, dies at 91|publisher=Stanford.edu|access-date=May 4, 2016|date=May 4, 2016}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://statistics.stanford.edu/people/ingram-olkin Ingram from Stanford University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520220127/https://statistics.stanford.edu/people/ingram-olkin |date=2014-05-20 }} * [http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.ss/1199285043 In