Miami University

John Bailer, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Scripps Gerontology Center; Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Miami University baileraj@muohio.edu Home page A. John Bailer Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1986;
M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1984;
B.S., A.B., Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1982.

Research Interests:

Quantitative risk estimation; design and analysis of occupational and environmental health studies; injury surveillance; health and safety issues for health care workers and older workers; design and analysis of research studies in aging.

Selected Publications:

Research Articles:

 

Bailer, A.J., Noble, R.B., Straker, J.K. and Hughes M.R. (2007) Detecting systematic discrepancies in nursing home assessments of residents. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (published online: 28 November 2007).

Bailer, A.J., Straker, J., Noble, R., Hughes, M., See, K. (2007). Considering nursing home quality: Places rated or consumer reports? Chance, 20: 59-62.

See, K., Noble, R.B. and Bailer, A.J. (2007). Comparison of relative efficiencies of sampling plans excluding certain neighboring units: a simulation study. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 77: 605-612.

Wheeler, M.W. and Bailer, A.J. (2007).  Properties of model-averaged BMDLs: A study of model averaging in dichotomous risk estimation. Risk Analysis, 27: 659-670.

Wright, S.E., Noble, R.B., and Bailer, A.J. (2007). Equal-precision allocations and other constraints in stratified random sampling. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, vol. 77, no. 12, December 2007, 1081-1089.

Noble, R.B., Bailer, A.J. and Faris, L.L. (2006). Finding consolation in first round tournament losses. Chance 19: 41-48.

Noble, R.B., Bailer, A.J., Kunkel, S.R., & Straker, J.K.(2006). Sample Size Requirements for Studying Small Populations in Gerontology Research. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology.

Bartuszevige, A., Hughes, M.R., Bailer, A.J., and Gorchov, D. (2006). Weather related patterns of fruit abscission may mask patterns of frugivory. Canadian Journal of Botany 84: 869-875 .

Charway, H.V. and Bailer, A.J. (2006). Testing multiple-group variance testing using randomization procedures. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (to appear).

Wheeler, MW. and Bailer, A.J. (2006). Comparing model averaging with other model election strategies for benchmark dose estimation. Environmental and Ecological Statistics (to appear).

See, K., Noble, R.B. and Bailer, A.J. (2006). Computing inclusion probabilities for constructing Horvitz-Thompson estimators for sampling plans excluding neighboring units. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (to appear).

Kuempel, E.D., Tran, C.L., Castranova, V. and Bailer, A.J. (2006). Lung dosimetry and risk assessment of nanoparticles: evaluating and extending current models in rats and humans. Inhalation Toxicology 18: 717-724.

Wright, S.E., Noble, R.B. and Bailer, A.J. (2006). Equal-precision allocations and other constraints in stratified random sampling (to Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (to appear).

 

Books

Piegorsch, W.W. and Bailer, A.J. (2005). Analyzing Environmental Data. John Wiley & Sons: West Sussex, England.

Piegorsch, W.W. and Bailer, A.J. (2000). Solutions Manual for Statistics for Environmental Biology and Toxicology. Chapman and Hall/CRC: Boca Raton, FL.

Edited Books

Bailer, A.J. and Oris, J.T. Environmental toxicology, statistics for, in Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, B. Everitt and E. Melnick, eds. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, in press.

Bailer, A.J. and Piegorsch, W.W. Potency estimation, in Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, B. Everitt and E. Melnick, eds. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, in press.

Piegorsch, W.W. and Bailer, A.J. Combining information, in Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, B. Everitt and E. Melnick, eds. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, in press.

Bailer, A.J., Maltoni, C., Bailar, J.C., Belpoggi, F., Brazier, J.V. and Soffritti, M. (eds.) (1999). Uncertainty in the risk assessment of environmental and occupational hazards. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 895. NY Academy of Sciences: New York.

Book Chapters, Technical Reports

Bailer, A.J. and Oris, J.T. (2002). Toxicology, Environmental. In Encyclopedia of Environmetrics. Vol 4, A.H. El-Sharawi and W.W. Piegorsch (Eds.), 2212-2218.

Bailer, A.J. and Oris, J.T. (2002). Aquatic Toxicology. In Encyclopedia of Environmetrics. Vol. 1, A.H. El-Sharawi and W.W. Piegorsch (Eds.), 77-80.

Oris, J.T. and Bailer, A.J. (2002). Quantitative Models in Ecological Toxicology: Application in Ecological Risk Assessment. In The Role of Models in Ecosystem Science. C. D. Canham, J. J. Cole, and W. K. Laurenroth (Eds.), 00-000.

Oris, J.T., and Bailer, A.J. (2003). Quantitative models in ecological toxicology: Application in ecological risk assessment. Chapter 19. IN: The Role of Models in Ecosystem Science , Cary Conference IX, J. Cole and C. Canham (eds.), Princeton Univ. Press, NJ. pp. 346-364.

Bailer, A.J. (2003). The use of probabilistic and simulation methods in the assessment of  occupational hazards. Bull. Int. Statist. Inst., Vol.LX Book 2, pp.142-144. Proceedings of the 54th Session, August 13-20, 2003, Berlin, Germany.

Vineis, P., Schulte P.A., Carreon T., Bailer A.J., and Medvedovic M. (2004). Issues of design and analysis in studies of gene-environment interactions. In P. Buffler, J. Rice, M. Bird, P. Boffeta (Eds): Mechanisms of carcinogenesis.  IARC Sci. Publ. 157, International Agency For Research on Cancer, Lyon, pp 417-436.

Bailer, A.J. and Bailar, J.C. (2006). Risk Assessment. In J.C. Bailar and D.C. Hoaglin (Eds): Medical Uses of Statistics, 3rd Edition.