Jerrold Howard Tsar

Jerrold Howard Zar (born  June 28, 1941 in Chicago ) is an American biologist and statistician . He was Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Northern Illinois University from 1968 to 2002 and was best known for a textbook on biostatistics that was published in five editions between 1974 and 2009.

Life

Jerrold Zar was born in Chicago in 1941 and received a BS degree from Northern Illinois University (NIU) in 1962 after studying biology . Two years later he received an MS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he also received his PhD in 1967 . After a short time as a postdoctoral fellow , he returned to the NIU in 1968, where he worked as professor of ecology and evolutionary biology until his retirement in 2002 and as dean of from 1984 to 2002Graduate School acted.

Jerrold Zar gained wider fame in professional circles through his textbook "Biostatistical Analysis" for the statistical analysis of data in the biosciences, which was first published in 1974 by Prentice Hall and in 2009 in its fifth edition. One from him in 1992 under the title "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" authored and several times also Journal of Irreproducible Results published poem with which he humorously the weaknesses of software for spell checking themed has, especially in the Internet found distribution.

Works (selection)

• Biostatistical Analysis. Upper Saddle River 1974, 1984, 1996, 1999 and 2009
• Field and Laboratory Methods for General Ecology. Dubuque, 1977, 1984 and 1990 as well as Boston 1998 and 2008 (as co-author)

literature

• Zar, Jerrold H. In: Who's Who in Technology. Fifth edition. Research Publications, Woodbridge 1986, ISBN 0-89-235112-8 , Volume 6, p. 279

Web links

• Northern Illinois University - Professor Jerrold H. Zar (English, with picture)