John Christian Bailar III (October 9, 1932 – September 6, 2016) was an American
statistician
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It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, a ...
and Professor Emeritus at the
University of Chicago
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.
He was born in
Urbana, Illinois
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, the son of
John C. Bailar, Jr., a chemistry professor, and Florence (Catherwood) Bailar. He graduated from the
University of Colorado
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with a B.A. in chemistry in 1953, from
Yale University
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with an M.D. in 1955, and from
American University
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with a Ph.D. in statistics in 1973. At American University he met his wife, fellow statistician
Barbara A. Bailar
Barbara Ann Bailar (1935 – 13 June 2023) was an American statistician, who worked for many years at the United States Census Bureau but resigned in protest over the decision not to adjust its 1990 results. She was the only person to have been bot ...
. The couple had four children.
He was editor-in-chief of the ''
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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'' and has been on the Editorial Board of ''
Cancer Research
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'' and statistical consultant to the
New England Journal of Medicine
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. He also was briefly a Professor of Biostatistics at the
Harvard School of Public Health
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in Boston before he moved to Canada. In 1975 he was elected as a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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.
Bailar died at age 83 in
Mitchellville, Maryland
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History
Mitchellville was named for John Mit ...
on September 6, 2016.
Memberships/Awards
* Fellow of the
American Statistical Association
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(1975)
* Elected member of the
National Academy of Medicine
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(1993)
* Elected member of the
International Statistical Institute
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* Fellow of the
American College of Epidemiology
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* Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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* Fellow of the
Collegium Ramazzini
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(1996)
* Fellow of the
MacArthur Fellows Program
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(1990-1995)
Works
''Medical uses of statistics'' Editors John Christian Bailar, Frederick Mosteller, CRC Press, 1992,
''Assessment of the NIOSH head-and-face anthropometric survey of U.S. respirator users'' Editors John Christian Bailar, Emily Ann Meyer, Robert Pool, National Academies Press, 2007,
References
Further reading
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External links
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1932 births
2016 deaths
American statisticians
People from Urbana, Illinois
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Yale School of Medicine alumni
American University alumni
University of Chicago faculty
MacArthur Fellows
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Medical journal editors
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Mathematicians from Illinois
Fellows of the American College of Epidemiology
20th-century American mathematicians
Members of the National Academy of Medicine