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{{Short description|American statistician (1932–2016)}}
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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]].<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 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==
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* Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]
* Fellow of the [[Collegium Ramazzini]] (1996)
* Fellow of the [[
==Works==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=oV2ZIKoucIEC ''Medical uses of statistics''], Editors John Christian Bailar, Frederick Mosteller, CRC Press, 1992, {{ISBN
*[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
==References==
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==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==
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