Ingram Anita Olkin

Ingram Olkin

Ingram Olkin (born July 23, 1924) is a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of...

Life Distributions - Structure of Nonparamtric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families

As we approach the end of this decade it is becoming clear that surface mount technology is changing the face of electronics assembly. The implication of this is that off-shore sourcing of electronic products due to low labour costs may no longer be the most economical mode of production. SMT will a...

Selecting and Ordering Populations: A New Statistical Methodology (Classics in Applied Mathematics)

This SIAM Classics edition is an unabridged, corrected republication of the work first published in 1977. It provides a compendium of applied aspects of ordering and selection procedures and includes tables that permit the practitioner to carry out the experiment and draw statistically justified con...

Education in a Research University

This collection of essays on the character, administration, and management of research universities concentrates on issues of systematic planning, planning models, teaching approaches, and management associated with the aims and methods of operations research. The book also deals with more general c...

Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis

The main purpose of this book is to address the statistical issues for integrating independent studies. There exist a number of papers and books that discuss the mechanics of collecting, coding, and preparing data for a meta-analysis , and we do not deal with these. Because this book concerns method...

Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and Its Applications (Springer Series in Statistics)

This book’s first edition has been widely cited by researchers in diverse fields. The following are excerpts from reviews. “Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and its Applications” merits strong praise. It is innovative, coherent, well written and, most importantly, a pleasure to read. … This work...

Life Distributions: Structure of Nonparametric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families (Springer Series in Statistics)

This book is devoted to the study of univariate distributions appropriate for the analyses of data known to be nonnegative. The book includes much material from reliability theory in engineering and survival analysis in medicine.

Contributions to Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of Harold Hotelling

The Nation's Report Card: Evolution and Perspectives