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Ingram Olkin
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Ingram Olkin in 1986
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| Born | July 23, 1924 |
| Died | April 28, 2016 (aged 91) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Columbia University City College of New York |
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | S. N. Roy |
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Ingram Olkin (born July 23, 1924 – died April 28, 2016) was a very important professor. He taught statistics and education at Stanford University. He was known for creating new ways to use statistics. These methods helped evaluate different plans and ideas, especially in education. He also made big contributions to areas like meta-analysis, which combines results from many studies.
About Ingram Olkin's Life
Ingram Olkin was born in 1924 in Waterbury, Connecticut. He loved learning about numbers and math. He earned his first degree in mathematics from the City College of New York. Later, he got a master's degree from Columbia University. He then completed his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His Ph.D. work, finished in 1951, was about "distribution problems in multivariate analysis." This means he studied how to understand data with many different variables at once. He learned from famous teachers like Harold Hotelling. His main advisor was S. N. Roy. Ingram Olkin passed away at his home in Palo Alto, California, in 2016, when he was 91 years old.
Awards and Special Recognitions
Ingram Olkin received many honors for his work. In 1998, he won the Elizabeth Scott Award. This award recognized his efforts in supporting women in the field of statistics. He was the only man among the 14 people who have received this award so far.
In 1962, he was chosen as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. This is a special title given to people who have made major contributions to statistics. He also served as the President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1984. This is a big leadership role in the world of math and statistics.
Olkin also received several special fellowships. These include the Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Lady Davis Fellowships. He also earned an honorary doctorate degree from De Montfort University.
Books and Editing Work
Ingram Olkin wrote many important books about statistics. Some of his well-known books include Statistical methods for meta-analysis and Probability theory. He also wrote a book called Education in a Research University. He often worked with other experts, like S. S. Shrikhande and Larry V. Hedges.
He wrote two books with Albert W. Marshall. One was Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and its Applications (1979). The other was Life distributions: Structure of nonparametric, semiparametric, and parametric families (2007). He also wrote Selecting and ordering populations: A new statistical methodology with Jean Dickinson Gibbons and Milton Sobel. This book is about making good choices based on data.
Ingram Olkin was also a very active editor for many important journals. He was the editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics. He also served as the very first editor of the Annals of Statistics. Both of these journals are published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He played a key role in starting the Journal of Educational Statistics. This journal is published with the American Statistical Association. He also helped edit the math journal Linear Algebra and its Applications. He was very involved in organizing international meetings about matrix theory, linear algebra, and statistics.
See also
In Spanish: Ingram Olkin para niños
- Marshall–Olkin exponential distribution
