University Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics

Miami University 
Department of Statistics
311A Upham Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-3538
baileraj@MiamiOH.edu
Twitter @john_bailer & @StatsandStories
Curriculum vitae (PDF)

Other Positions

Podcast Panelist, Stats+Stories
Scripps Research Fellow, Scripps Gerontology Center
Faculty Affiliate, Statistical Consulting Center
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Media, Journalism and Film
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Sociology & Gerontology
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Biology
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for the Environment & Sustainability

 

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
• Enhancing connections between statistics and journalism

Education and class links

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 computing

• R Study Group
• R Cookbook
• Learning R (wordpress)

SAS (support)
SAS (OnlineDoc)

 

Talks/Presentations (subset of recent talks)

• A not-quite-random walk to a career in statistics (and podcasting?) (@QSURE June 2020).
• Telling the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics (ISI Side Event @ UNSC March 2020).
• To the Point: Critical Skills and Knowledge To Be Successful in Academia, Industry And the Government(Panel @ JSM July 2019).
• Content audits of Introductory Statistics Classes in Response to the ASA P-value Statement (ASA SSI October 2017).
• Practical Experience for modeling work as statistical collaborators and consultants (ISI RSC 2014 - November 2014).
• Statistics and Statistical Modeling in The First Two Years of College Math (CBMS Forum - October 2014).
• Implementing a quantitative literacy core competency requirement in the College of Arts and Science at Miami University (ICOTS9 - July 2014).
• Recommendations/ Learning Outcomes for Master's Degree Programs in Statistics: Report of ASA Workgroup (JSM 2013 poster - August 2013).
• Decisions, data and risk (ASA Stats for staffers series - July 2013)
• 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:

International Statistical Institute American Statistical Association, Greater Cincinnati Chapter ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Sections ASA Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region National Numeracy Network International Association for Statistical Education Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Sigma Xi, Miami University Chapter Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry International Environmetric Society ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment Society for Risk Analysis ASA Section on Risk Analysis ISI Committee on Risk Analysis American Public Health Association Gerontological Society of America

Organizational links:

National Academy of Sciences
U.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 Hoops
Fox Soccer
ESPN Soccer
Great reads (book/author list) [updated: 27 DEC 19]

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