John C. Bailar III

John Christian Bailar III (born October 9, 1932 Urbana, Illinois) is an American statistician, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.

He is the son of John C. Bailar, Jr., a chemistry professor. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in 1953, from Yale University with an M.D. in 1955, and from American University with a Ph.D. in statistics in 1973.

He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and has been on the Editorial Board of Cancer Research.

Awards

• Fellow of the American Statistical Association
• elected member of the International Statistical Institute
• Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• elected member of the Collegium Ramazzini
• 1990 MacArthur Fellow.

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

External links

• John C. Bailar III at the Mathematics Genealogy Project