Jerrold Howard Zar (born 1941) is an American biologist and Professor Emeritus at

Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. It was founded as "Northern Illinois State Normal School" in 1895 by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld, initially to provide the state with c ...

, having been elected as Fellow to the

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Education and career

Zar received the BS degree in 1962 from

. He received a MS (1964) and PhD (1967) both from the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

. Zar wrote a widely cited textbook in

biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) is a branch of statistics that applies statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

References

1941 births Living people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 21st-century American biologists Northern Illinois University faculty {{US-biologist-stub