Ingram Olkin, In Memoriam

(in Memoriam) Ingram Olkin, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Education and of Statistics. He is considered as one of the fathers of meta-analytic methods for the combination of data from diverse studies and his work has been catalytic in promoting rigorous quantitative methods for summarizing research results, assessing biases in research, and informing policy actions. These methods have been applied in almost every field of scientific research and their use in increasing geometrically.