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46
Citations
10568
World Ranking
3572
National Ranking
1713

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1977 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1959 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
  • 1952 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1952 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Nathan Keyfitz was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their career included recognition through several notable awards and honors.

Keyfitz was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1952. The same year, they were also named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Later, in 1959, Keyfitz became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada within the Academy of Social Sciences. In 1977, they were inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Throughout their career, Keyfitz contributed to the scientific community primarily through work connected to these affiliations and honors, reflecting a longstanding engagement with the advancement of statistical and demographic science. Their scholarly contributions, while not itemized in available sources, positioned them within a scholarly context grounded in these professional communities.

Best Publications

  • Applied Mathematical Demography

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Introduction to the mathematics of population

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Causes of death : life tables for national populations

    Samuel H. Preston;Nathan Keyfitz;Robert Schoen

  • The limits of population forecasting.

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • ON THE MOMENTUM OF POPULATION GROWTH

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • On future population.

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • 3. Sampling variance of standardized mortality rates.

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Population : facts and methods of demography

    Gordon F. Sutton;Nathan Keyfitz;Wilhelm Flieger

  • What difference would it make if cancer were eradicated? An examination of the taeuber paradox

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Family formation and the frequency of various kinship relationships.

    Leo A. Goodman;Nathan Keyfitz;Thomas W. Pullum

  • The mathematics of sex and marriage

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Introduction to the mathematics of population: with revisions

    Keyfitz N

  • World Population Growth and Aging: Demographic Trends in the Late Twentieth Century

    Nathan Keyfitz;Wilhelm Flieger

  • Consumerism and the new poor

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Choice of function for mortality analysis: Effective forecasting depends on a minimum parameter representation

    Nathan Keyfitz;Nathan Keyfitz

  • Can Knowledge Improve Forecasts

    Nathan Keyfitz

  • Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History.

    Nathan Keyfitz;William H. McNeill

  • The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work.@@@Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time.

    Nathan Keyfitz;Arlie Russell Hochschild;John P. Robinson;Geoffrey Godbey

  • Regional Model Life Tables and Stable Populations.

    Nathan Keyfitz;Ansley J. Coale;Paul Demeny;Barbara Vaughan

  • Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform

    Nathan Keyfitz;Charles H. Heimsath

  • Spatial Population Analysis.

    Nathan Keyfitz;P. H. Rees;A. G. Wilson

  • The Politics of Modernization

    Nathan Keyfitz;David E. Apter

  • On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality

    David P. Smith;Nathan Keyfitz

  • World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data.

    Z. M. Sykes;N. Keyfitz;W. Flieger

  • Population: Facts and Methods of Demography

    Bernard Benjamin;Nathan Keyfitz;Whilhelm Flieger

  • Applied Mathematical Demography.

    T. James Trussell;Nathan Keyfitz

  • World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data.

    Beverley Rowe;Nathan Keyfitz;Wilhelm Flieger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane Menken
Jane Menken University of Colorado Boulder
Samuel H. Preston
Samuel H. Preston University of Pennsylvania
John Bongaarts
John Bongaarts Population Council
Wolfgang Lutz
Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier
Sergei Scherbov
Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Ansley J. Coale
Ansley J. Coale Princeton University
Andrei Rogers
Andrei Rogers University of Colorado Boulder
Robert Schoen
Robert Schoen Pennsylvania State University
John P. Robinson
John P. Robinson University of Maryland, College Park
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark

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