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

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. He died at the age of 83 in Mitchellville, Maryland on September 6, 2016. He was born in Urbana, Illinois, the son of John C. Bailar, Jr., a chemistry professor. He graduated from the

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with a B.A. in chemistry in 1953, from

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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 ''

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'' and has been on the Editorial Board of ''

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'' and statistical consultant to the

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. He also was briefly a Professor of Biostatistics at the

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in Boston before he moved to Canada. In 1975 he was elected as a

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* Fellow of the

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(1975) * Elected member of the

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(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

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(1996) * Fellow of the MacArthur Fellows Program (1990-1995)

Works

''Medical uses of statistics''
Editors John Christian Bailar, Frederick Mosteller, CRC Press, 1992,
''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,

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