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John Christian Bailar III (October 9, 1932 – September 6, 2016) was an American statistician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.

He was born in Urbana, Illinois, the son of John C. Bailar, Jr., a chemistry professor, and Florence (Catherwood) Bailar. 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. The couple had four children.

He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and has been on the Editorial Board of Cancer Research and statistical consultant to the New England Journal of Medicine. 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.

Bailar died at age 83 in Mitchellville, Maryland on September 6, 2016.

Memberships/Awards

• Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1975)
• Elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (1993)
• Elected member of the International Statistical Institute
• Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini (1996)
• Fellow of the MacArthur Fellows Program (1990-1995)

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. Assessment of NIH Minority Research and Training Programs. 2005. doi:10.17226/11329. ISBN 978-0-309-09575-4. PMID 20669454.
2. Kauffman, George B. (1994). "John C. Bailar, Jr. (1904-1991)". ACS Symposium Series. 565: 74–80. doi:10.1021/bk-1994-0565.ch006. ISBN 0-8412-2950-3.
3. View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-08-20.
4. "John Christian Bailar Obituary". Washington Post. September 14, 2016.

Further reading

• Lerner, Barron H. (January 12, 2017). "John Bailar's Righteous Attack on the "War on Cancer"". Slate Magazine.

External links

• John C. Bailar III at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

• 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