In 1955 Bartholomew married Marian Elsie Lake, and they have two daughters. Bartholomew has debated atheist physicist Victor Stenger on whether or not God is a failed hypothesis.
Publications
Books 1. 1961: & S.E. Finer and H.B. Berrington Backbench Opinion in the House of Commons, 1955–1959. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 2. 1967: Stochastic Models for Social Processes, New York and London: John Wiley and Sons.. 3. 1971: & E.E. Bassett, Let's Look at the Figures: the quantitative approach to human affairs), Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin books . 4. 1971: & B.R.Morris, Aspects of Manpower Planning, London: English Universities Press. 5. 1971: & A.R.Smith Manpower and Management Science, London: English Universities Press. 6. 1972: & R.E. Barlow, H.D. Brunk and J.M. Bremner, Statistical Inference under Order Restrictions, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 7. 1973: Stochastic Models for Social Processes, Chichester 2nd edition: John Wiley and Sons. 8. 1976: Manpower Planning, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books. 9. 1979: & A.F.Forbes, Statistical Techniques for Manpower Planning, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 10. 1981: Mathematical Methods in Social Science, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 11. 1982: Stochastic Models for Social Processes, Chichester 3rd edition: John Wiley and Sons. 12. 1985: Russian translation of Chapters 1–8 of Stochastic Models for Social Processes, 3rd edition, Moscow. 13. 1984: God of Chance, London: SCM Press, Italian translation, 1987. 14. 1987: Latent Variable Models and Factor Analysis, London: Griffin. 15. 1991: & A. F. Forbes and S.I. McClean, Statistical Techniques for Manpower Planning, Chichester 2nd edition: John Wiley and Sons. 16. 1993: & K.Haagen & M.Deistler, Statistical Modelling and Latent Variables, Amsterdam: North-Holland. 17. 1996: Uncertain Belief, Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 18. 1996: The Statistical Approach to Social Measurement, San Diego: Academic Press. 19. 1999: & M. Knott, Latent Variable Models and Factor Analysis, London Arnold, 2nd edition: 20. 2002: & F. Steele, I Moustaki & J. I. Galbraith, The Analysis and Interpretation of Multivariate Data for Social Scientists, Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC. 21. 2004: Measuring Intelligence: Facts and Fallacies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 22. 2006: Measurement. Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications. 23. 2007: God, Chance and Purpose: Can God have it both ways? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 24. 2008: & F Steele, I Moustaki, J Galbraith, Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data, Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC 25. 2011: & M Knott, I Moustaki, Latent Variable Models and factor Analysis: A unified approach. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd 26. 2013: Unobserved Variables: Models and Misunderstandings. Heidelberg: Springer