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Kenneth C. Land

Kenneth C. Land

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
72
Citations
27921
World Ranking
671
National Ranking
322

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Kenneth C. Land is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences and decision sciences, focusing on studies related to demography, management science, sociology, and health.

The primary fields of study in their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Decision Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields concentrate on:

  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Demography
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Health

Their research topics cover a broad array of areas such as:

  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Demographic modeling and climate adaptation
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
  • Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis

Kenneth C. Land has contributed to multiple scholarly publications, including the following recent papers:

  • The Data Envelopment Analysis and Equal Weights/Minimax Methods of Composite Social Indicator Construction: a Methodological Study of Data Sensitivity and Robustness (2020, Applied Research in Quality of Life)
  • Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective (2022, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility)
  • A numerical method to compute Fisher information for a special case of heterogeneous negative binomial regression (2020, Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis)
  • The uses and abuses of an age-period-cohort method: On the linear algebra and statistical properties of intrinsic and related estimators (2020, Mathematical Foundations of Computing)
  • Genetic associations with longevity are on average stronger in females than in males (2023, Heliyon)

Kenneth C. Land's frequent co-authors include:

  • Hui Zheng
  • Qiang Fu
  • Eric N. Reither
  • Yi Zeng
  • Emma Zang

Their research has appeared most often in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Applied Research in Quality of Life
  • Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
  • Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis
  • Mathematical Foundations of Computing

Among honors received, Kenneth C. Land was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1978.

Best Publications

  • Quality of life indexes for national policy: Review and agenda for research

    Michael R. Hagerty;Robert A. Cummins;Abbott L. Ferriss;Kenneth Land

  • Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Are There Any Invariances Across Time and Social Space?

    Kenneth C. Land;Patricia L. McCall;Lawrence E. Cohen

  • AGE, CRIMINAL CAREERS, AND POPULATION HETEROGENEITY: SPECIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF A NONPARAMETRIC, MIXED POISSON MODEL*

    Daniel S. Nagin;Kenneth C. Land

  • Social Inequality and Predatory Criminal Victimization: An Exposition and Test of a Formal Theory

    Lawrence E. Cohen;James R. Kluegel;Kenneth C. Land

  • Principles of Path Analysis

    Kenneth C. Land

  • UNEMPLOYMENT AND CRIME RATES IN THE POST- WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES: A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

    David Cantor;Kenneth C. Land

  • Perceived Risk versus Fear of Crime: Empirical Evidence of Conceptually Distinct Reactions in Survey Data

    Pamela Wilcox Rountree;Kenneth C. Land

  • Educational Status and Active Life Expectancy among Older Blacks and Whites

    Jack M. Guralnik;Kenneth C. Land;Dan Blazer;Gerda G. Fillenbaum

  • Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications

    Yang Yang;Kenneth C. Land

  • The intrinsic estimator for age-period-cohort analysis: What it is and how to use it

    Yang Yang;Sam Schulhofer-Wohl;Wenjiang J. Fu;Kenneth C. Land

  • Chance‐constrained data envelopment analysis

    Kenneth C. Land;C. A. Knox Lovell;Sten Thore

  • A MIXED MODELS APPROACH TO THE AGE-PERIOD-COHORT ANALYSIS OF REPEATED CROSS-SECTION SURVEYS, WITH AN APPLICATION TO DATA ON TRENDS IN VERBAL TEST SCORES

    Yang Yang;Kenneth C. Land

  • How Many Latent Classes of Delinquent/Criminal Careers? Results from Mixed Poisson Regression Analyses

    Amy V. D'Unger;Kenneth C. Land;Patricia L. McCall;Daniel S. Nagin

  • A Methodological Comparison of Age-Period-Cohort Models: The Intrinsic Estimator and Conventional Generalized Linear Models

    Yang Yang;Wenjiang J. Fu;Kenneth C. Land

  • Age-period-cohort analysis of repeated cross-section surveys: Fixed or random effects?

    Yang Yang;Kenneth C. Land

  • Cumulative deficits better characterize susceptibility to death in elderly people than phenotypic frailty: lessons from the Cardiovascular Health Study.

    Alexander M. Kulminski;Svetlana V. Ukraintseva;Irina V. Kulminskaya;Konstantin G. Arbeev

  • Property Crime Rates in the United States: A Macrodynamic Analysis, 1947-1977; With Ex Ante Forecasts for the Mid-1980s

    Lawrence E. Cohen;Marcus Felson;Kenneth C. Land

  • A Comparison of Poisson, Negative Binomial, and Semiparametric Mixed Poisson Regression Models: With Empirical Applications to Criminal Careers Data

    Kenneth C. Land;Patricia L. McCALL;Daniel S. Nagin

  • Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: Report from a technical working group

    Vicki A. Freedman;Eileen M. Crimmins;Robert F. Schoeni;Brenda C. Spillman

  • Handbook of social indicators and quality of life research

    Kenneth C. Land;Alex C. Michalos;M. Joseph Sirgy

  • VICTIMIZATION: AN EXPOSITION AND TEST OF A FORMAL THEORY*

    Lawrence E. Cohen;James R. Kluegel;Kenneth C. Land

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng Peking University
Pamela Wilcox
Pamela Wilcox Pennsylvania State University
Eric Stallard
Eric Stallard Duke University
Alex C. Michalos
Alex C. Michalos University of Northern British Columbia
Danan Gu
Danan Gu United Nations
huanming yang
huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Elizabeth R. Hauser
Elizabeth R. Hauser Duke University
Lars Bolund
Lars Bolund Aarhus University
Daniel S. Nagin
Daniel S. Nagin Carnegie Mellon University

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