John Christian Bailar

John Christian Bailar III (October 9, 1932 – September 6, 2016) was an American statistician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.[1][2] He died at the age of 83 in Mitchellville, Maryland on September 6, 2016.[3]

He was born in Urbana, Illinois, the son of John C. Bailar, Jr., a chemistry professor.[4] He graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in chemistry in 1953, from Yale University with an M.D. in 1955, and from American University with a Ph.D. in statistics in 1973. At American University he met his wife, fellow statistician Barbara A. Bailar.

He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and has been on the Editorial Board of Cancer Research. He also was briefly a Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston before he moved to Canada. In 1975 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5]

Memberships/Awards

Works

  • Medical uses of statistics, Editors John Christian Bailar, Frederick Mosteller, CRC Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-910133-36-4
  • 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, ISBN 978-0-309-10398-5

References

  1. ↑ http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.ss/1029963429
  2. ↑ http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11329&page=169
  3. ↑ "John Christian Bailar Obituary". Washington Post. September 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ Kauffman, George B. "John C. Bailar, Jr. (1904-1991)". ACS Symposium Series: 74–80. doi:10.1021/bk-1994-0565.ch006.
  5. ↑ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-08-20.
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