A. John Bailer
- University Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics
- Scripps Research Fellow, Scripps Gerontology Center
- Faculty Affiliate, Statistical Consulting Center
- Affiliate Member, Department of Zoology
- Affiliate Member, Department of Sociology & Gerontology
- Affiliate Member, Institute for the Environment & Sustainability
| Address | 311 Upham Hall, Department of Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA |
| Office Phone | 513.529.3538 |
| Stat Dept. Phone/FAX | 513.529.7828 (529-STAT) / 513.529.0989 |
| baileraj AT MiamiOH.edu | |
| Office hours (Spring 2013) | 1:15-2:15 MWF or by appointment |
Research/Scholarly Interests
- Design and analysis of environmental toxicology studies
- Design and analysis of occupational health studies
- Quantitative risk estimation
- Gerontological data analysis
- Promoting quantitative literacy
Education and class links
Class links (students should refer to Niihka for course-related materials)
Statistical education resources+:
- Chance (Magazine)
- Signifcance (Magazine)
- Numeracy (Journal)
- Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE)
- Resources on the Web for Statistics students and teachers
- Websites for statistics instructors
- International Statistical Literacy Project
Other cool stat-related links:
- getstats (RSS campaign to improve how we handle numbers)
- Understanding Uncertainty site
- Micromorts (from understanding uncertainty site)
- The Big Risk Test (BBC)
- Carl Bialik WSJ Number's guy blog
- Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog
- Andrew Gelman's blog on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science
- Flowing Data
- Gapminder (for a fact-based world view)
- Google Scholar
- FedStats
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Statistical software links:
R computingSAS (support)
SAS (OnlineDoc)
Talks/Presentations (subset of recent talks)
- Using statistics to improve ecotoxicology testing (UMBC 6th Annual Prob. & Stat. Day - April 2012)
- Extracting Information from Data: Visualizing Gerontological Results (Miami Univ. Gerontology Brown Bag Seminar - April 2012)
- Statistics and the humanities: news and numbers in journalism as proof of concept (ISI WSC - August 2011)
- From Canned Labs to Counseling Concerned Clients: The Evolution of a Statistics Capstone Experience (JSM 2011 - July 2011 )
- Risk estimation, model uncertainty and risk assessment practice (ICRA4 - May 2011)
- That's not what I meant: adventures in defining new variables (SAS Webinar - November 2010)
- Moving towards a quantitative literacy core competency requirement (JSM 2010 - August 2010)
- News and Numbers: telling the story to learn the statistics (JSM 2009 - August 2009)
- Worker injuries and safety equipment in Ohio nursing homes (Ohio LTC Research Project Advisory Council meeting - October 2008)
- Political economy of US states and rates of fatal occupational injury (2nd Annual Miami-Seoul Symposium - October 2008)
- Do raters agree when assessing nursing home resident impairment? (OSU Biostat. Seminar - June 2008)
- Shutting Down the Bars: Options for Displaying and Comparing Data Distributions (MU ECOLUNCH - January 2007)
Books
Statistical Programming in SAS - Bailer (2010)
Analyzing Environmental Data - Piegorsch & Bailer (2005)
Statistics for Environmental Biology and Toxicology - Piegorsch and Bailer (1997)
SAS and S-Plus Programs
ERRATA
Professional Society links:
Organizational links:
National Academy of SciencesU.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
National Center for Health Statistics
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
National Center for Environmental Health
Avocational links:
UNC HoopsFox Soccer
ESPN Soccer
Great reads (book/author list) [updated: 02 JAN 13]
This document was last modified on 02 January 2013.
Please send comments and suggestions to baileraj@MiamiOH.edu