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Line 1: {{Short description\|American statistician (1932–2016)}} '''John Christian Bailar III''' (October 9, 1932 - September 6, 2016) was an American [[statistician]] and Professor Emeritus at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.ss/1029963429</ref><ref>http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11329&page=169</ref> He passed away at the age of 83 in Mitchellville, Maryland on September 6, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=181400778\|title=John Christian Bailar Obituary\|last=\|first=\|date=September 14, 2016\|website=Washington Post\|publisher=\|access-date=}}</ref> {{Use mdy dates\|date=August 2022}} '''John Christian Bailar III''' (October 9, 1932 – September 6, 2016) was an American [[statistician]] and Professor Emeritus at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite book\|url=http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11329&page=169\|doi = 10.17226/11329\|title = Assessment of NIH Minority Research and Training Programs\|year = 2005\|pmid = 20669454\|isbn = 978-0-309-09575-4}}</ref> He was born in [[Urbana, Illinois]], the son of [[John C. Bailar, Jr.]], a chemistry professor, and Florence (Catherwood) Bailar.<ref>{{cite journal\|doi=10.1021/bk-1994-0565.ch006 \| title=John C. Bailar, Jr. (1904-1991) \| journal=ACS Symposium Series \| pages=74–80 \| last1 = Kauffman \| first1 = George B.\| year=1994 \| volume=565 \| isbn=0-8412-2950-3 }}</ref> He graduated from the [[University of Colorado at Boulder\|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.{{cn\|date=April 2024}} ~~He was born in Urbana, Illinois, the son of [[John C. Bailar, Jr.]], a chemistry professor.<ref>http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bk-1994-0565.ch006</ref>~~ He graduated from the [[University of Colorado at Boulder\|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 (journal)\|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]].<ref>[http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm \|date=2016-06-16 }}, accessed 2016-08-20.</ref> Bailar died at age 83 in [[Mitchellville, Maryland]] on September 6, 2016.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=181400778\|title=John Christian Bailar Obituary\|date=September 14, 2016\|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref> ==Memberships/Awards== Line 14 ⟶ 16: * Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] * Fellow of the [[Collegium Ramazzini]] (1996) * Fellow of the [[~~MacArthur Fellows Program\|~~MacArthur Fellows Program]] (1990-1995) ==Works== [https://books.google.com/books?id=oV2ZIKoucIEC ''Medical uses of statistics''], Editors John Christian Bailar, Frederick Mosteller, CRC Press, 1992, {{ISBN \|978-0-910133-36-4}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=xdYcgYjjMP8C ''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== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== *{{cite web \|last1=Lerner \|first1=Barron H. \|title=John Bailar's Righteous Attack on the "War on Cancer" \|url=https://slate.com/technology/2017/01/john-bailar-reminded-us-of-the-value-of-evidence.html \|website=[[Slate Magazine]] \|language=en \|date=12 January 2017}} ==External links== Line 27 ⟶ 32: {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bailar, John ~~Christian~~C.}} [[Category:American statisticians]]▼ [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:~~Living~~2016 ~~people~~deaths]]▼ ▲[[Category:American statisticians]] [[Category:People from Urbana, Illinois]] [[Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni]] [[Category:Yale School of Medicine alumni]] [[Category:American University alumni]] [[Category:University of Chicago faculty]] [[Category:MacArthur Fellows]] ▲[[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute]] [[Category:Medical journal editors]] [[Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association]] [[Category:Mathematicians from Illinois]] [[Category:Fellows of the American College of Epidemiology]] [[Category:20th-century American mathematicians]] [[Category:Members of the National Academy of Medicine]]