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Larry Hedges is a Board of Trustees Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Northwestern University, where he also holds appointments in the fields of Education and Social Policy, Psychology, and Medical Social Sciences. He serves as Co-Director of the STEPP Center and is an IPR Fellow. His academic journey began with a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980. He focuses primarily on the development and application of statistical methods across social, medical, and biological sciences. His significant research interests include the meta-analysis of results from studies to draw general conclusions, exploring the statistical aspects of the replication crisis in science, and designing and analyzing social experiments. Hedges has actively contributed to policy research, particularly in education, addressing how cognitive science shapes human cognition while processing uncertain information. His research is supported by notable grants from the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, and others. Hedges has published several influential works on statistical methods in meta-analysis and continues to advance knowledge in these fields.
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