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Kenneth C. Land, John Franklin Crowell Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Kenneth C. Land
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John Franklin Crowell Distinguished Professor Emeritus
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347 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708 |
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Mathematical Sociology,
Statistical Methods,
Demography,
Crime, Law and Deviance,
Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Measurement
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| I received my Ph.D. in sociology and mathematics from
the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. After a year of
postdoctoral study in mathematical statistics at
Columbia University in New York City, I taught there
and was a member of the staff of the Russell Sage
Foundation for three years. I then was successively a
member of the faculties of the University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin
before joining the Duke Sociology Department as
Chairman in 1986. I served as Chair of Sociology from January 1986 to August 1997. My main research interests are
contemporary social trends and quality-of-life measurement, social problems, demography, criminology, organizations, and mathematical and statistical models and methods for the study of social and demographic processes. I have done extensive research in each of
these areas and have been elected a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association (1978), the
Sociological Research Association (1981), the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
(1992), the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (1997), and the American Society of Criminology (2004). I teach Contemporary Social Problems (SOCIOL 111), Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis, and the Demography of Aging Proseminar (SOCIOL 750S). My other interests include tennis, jogging (10
kilometers), and music.
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- Recent Publications
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- Verma, V; Khan, HTA; Nath, DC; Land, KC, Biostatistical Methods and Applications in Health Research: A Case Study Approach
(December, 2025),
pp. 1-335 [doi] [abs].
- Li, M; Zhu, S; Wang, Z; Feng, Q; Zhang, J; Chao, F; Tang, W; George, L; Grundy, E; Murphy, M; Lutz, M; Dobra, A; Land, K; Zeng, Y, Optimized Random-Combinations of Total Fertility Rates and Life Expectancies at Birth for Probabilistic Population Projections,
Population Research and Policy Review, vol. 44 no. 1
(February, 2025) [doi] [abs].
- Zeng, Y; Chen, H; Liu, X; Song, Z; Yao, Y; Lei, X; Lv, X; Cheng, L; Chen, Z; Bai, C; Yin, Z; Lv, Y; Lu, J; Li, J; Land, KC; Yashin, A; O'Rand, AM; Sun, L; Yang, Z; Tao, W; Gu, J; Gottschalk, W; Tan, Q; Christensen, K; Hesketh, T; Tian, X-L; Yang, H; Egidi, V; Caselli, G; Robine, J-M; Wang, H; Shi, X; Vaupel, JW; Lutz, MW; Nie, C; Min, J, Genetic associations with longevity are on average stronger in females than in males.,
Heliyon, vol. 10 no. 1
(January, 2024),
pp. e23691 [doi] [abs].
- Land, KC; Lamb, VL, Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI),
in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well Being Research
(January, 2024),
pp. 747-752 [doi] .
- Land, KC, Composite Index Construction,
in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well Being Research
(January, 2024),
pp. 1270-1274 [doi] .
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Sociology
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