Search Results - "Land, Kenneth C"

Age–Period–Cohort Analysis of Repeated Cross-Section Surveys: Fixed or Random Effects? by Yang, Yang, Land, Kenneth C.

“…Yang and Land (2006) and Yang (forthcoming-b) developed a mixed (fixed and random) effects model for the age–period–cohort (APC) analysis of micro data sets in…”
Get full text

The Intrinsic Estimator for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis : What It Is and How to Use It by YANG YANG, SCHULHOFER-WOHL, Sam, FU, Wenjiang J, LAND, Kenneth C

“…A new approach to the statistical estimation of age-period-cohort (APC) accounting models, called the intrinsic estimator (IE), recently has been developed…”
Get full text

Puzzling role of genetic risk factors in human longevity: “risk alleles” as pro-longevity variants by Ukraintseva, Svetlana, Yashin, Anatoliy, Arbeev, Konstantin, Kulminski, Alexander, Akushevich, Igor, Wu, Deqing, Joshi, Gaurang, Land, Kenneth C., Stallard, Eric

“…Complex diseases are major contributors to human mortality in old age. Paradoxically, many genetic variants that have been associated with increased risks of…”
Get full text

Implications of Changes in Households and Living Arrangements for Future Home-Based Care Needs and Costs for Disabled Elders in China by Zeng, Yi, Chen, Huashuai, Wang, Zhenglian, Land, Kenneth C.

“…Objectives: To better understand future home-based care needs and costs for disabled elders in China. Method: To further develop and apply the ProFamy extended…”
Get full text

Multicollinearity in hierarchical linear models by Yu, Han, Jiang, Shanhe, Land, Kenneth C.

“…•An ill-posed problem (multicollinearity) in Hierarchical Linear Models (HLMs) is investigated.•An approach to diagnosing the presence of multicollinearity and…”
Get full text

Heterogeneity in the rise and decline of city-level homicide rates, 1976–2005: A latent trajectory analysis by McCall, Patricia L., Land, Kenneth C., Parker, Karen F.

“…This study applies latent trajectory methods to the analysis of temporal changes in homicide rates among large US cities across recent decades. Specifically,…”
Get full text

Genetic associations with longevity are on average stronger in females than in males by Zeng, Yi, Chen, Huashuai, Liu, Xiaomin, Song, Zijun, Yao, Yao, Lei, Xiaoyan, Lv, Xiaozhen, Cheng, Lingguo, Chen, Zhihua, Bai, Chen, Yin, Zhaoxue, Lv, Yuebin, Lu, Jiehua, Li, Jianxin, Land, Kenneth C., Yashin, Anatoliy, O'Rand, Angela M., Sun, Liang, Yang, Ze, Tao, Wei, Gu, Jun, Gottschalk, William, Tan, Qihua, Christensen, Kaare, Hesketh, Therese, Tian, Xiao-Li, Yang, Huanming, Egidi, Viviana, Caselli, Graziella, Robine, Jean-Marie, Wang, Huali, Shi, Xiaoming, Vaupel, James W., Lutz, Michael W., Nie, Chao, Min, Junxia

“…It is long observed that females tend to live longer than males in nearly every country. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. In this study, we…”
Get full text

Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement: Has the Promise Been Fulfilled?: An Assessment an Agenda for the Future by Land, Kenneth C., Michalos, Alex C.

“…This paper reviews the origins, promise, and subsequent development of social indicators/quality-of-life/well-being conceptualizations and research since the…”
Get full text

Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement: Has the Promise Been Fulfilled? by Land, Kenneth C, Michalos, Alex C

“…This paper reviews the origins, promise, and subsequent development of social indicators/quality-of-life/well-being conceptualizations and research since the…”
Get full text

Recent trends in US mortality in early and middle adulthood: racial/ethnic disparities in inter-cohort patterns by Zang, Emma, Zheng, Hui, Yang, Yang Claire, Land, Kenneth C

“…Abstract Background A striking increase in the all-cause mortality of US middle-aged non-Hispanic Whites in the past two decades has been documented by…”
Get full text

AGE, CRIMINAL CAREERS, AND POPULATION HETEROGENEITY: SPECIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF A NONPARAMETRIC, MIXED POISSON MODEL by NAGIN, DANIEL S., LAND, KENNETH C.

“…This article addresses three issues that are central to the criminal career debate. First, is the life course of individual offending patterns marked by…”
Get full text

The Data Envelopment Analysis and Equal Weights/Minimax Methods of Composite Social Indicator Construction: a Methodological Study of Data Sensitivity and Robustness by Shi, Chao, Land, Kenneth C.

“…In the construction of composite or summary social indicators/indices, a recurrent methodological issue pertains to how to weight each of the…”
Get full text

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 by Yang, Yang, Land, Kenneth C.

“…We develop a mixed (fixed and random effects) models approach to the age-period-cohort (APC) analysis of micro data sets in the form of a series of the…”
Get full text

The link between unemployment and crime rate fluctuations: An analysis at the county, state, and national levels by Phillips, Julie, Land, Kenneth C.

“…► Aggregate unemployment rates affect levels of criminal motivation and opportunities. ► We examine this model using data on seven Index crimes for US counties…”
Get full text

Should age-period-cohort studies return to the methodologies of the 1970s? by Reither, Eric N., Masters, Ryan K., Yang, Yang Claire, Powers, Daniel A., Zheng, Hui, Land, Kenneth C.

“…Social scientists have recognized the importance of age-period-cohort (APC) models for half a century, but have spent much of this time mired in debates about…”
Get full text

A Poisson-multinomial mixture approach to grouped and right-censored counts by Fu, Qiang, Guo, Xin, Land, Kenneth C.

“…Although count data are often collected in social, psychological, and epidemiological surveys in grouped and right-censored categories, there is a lack of…”
Get full text

Misunderstandings, Mischaracterizations, and the Problematic Choice of a Specific Instance in Which the IE Should Never Be Applied by Yang, Yang Claire, Land, Kenneth C.

Get full text

Optimizing Count Responses in Surveys: A Machine-learning Approach by Fu, Qiang, Guo, Xin, Land, Kenneth C.

“…Count responses with grouping and right censoring have long been used in surveys to study a variety of behaviors, status, and attitudes. Yet grouping or…”
Get full text

Novel loci and pathways significantly associated with longevity by Zeng, Yi, Nie, Chao, Min, Junxia, Liu, Xiaomin, Li, Mengmeng, Chen, Huashuai, Xu, Hanshi, Wang, Mingbang, Ni, Ting, Li, Yang, Yan, Han, Zhang, Jin-Pei, Song, Chun, Chi, Li-Qing, Wang, Han-Ming, Dong, Jie, Zheng, Gu-Yan, Lin, Li, Qian, Feng, Qi, Yanwei, Liu, Xiao, Cao, Hongzhi, Wang, Yinghao, Zhang, Lijuan, Li, Zhaochun, Zhou, Yufeng, Wang, Yan, Lu, Jiehua, Li, Jianxin, Qi, Ming, Bolund, Lars, Yashin, Anatoliy, Land, Kenneth C., Gregory, Simon, Yang, Ze, Gottschalk, William, Tao, Wei, Wang, Jian, Wang, Jun, Xu, Xun, Bae, Harold, Nygaard, Marianne, Christiansen, Lene, Christensen, Kaare, Franceschi, Claudio, Lutz, Michael W., Gu, Jun, Tan, Qihua, Perls, Thomas, Sebastiani, Paola, Deelen, Joris, Slagboom, Eline, Hauser, Elizabeth, Xu, Huji, Tian, Xiao-Li, Yang, Huanming, Vaupel, James W.

“…Only two genome-wide significant loci associated with longevity have been identified so far, probably because of insufficient sample sizes of centenarians,…”
Get full text

Variance Function Regression in Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models: Applications to the Study of Self-Reported Health by Zheng, Hui, Yang, Yang, Land, Kenneth C.

“…Two long-standing research problems of interest to sociologists are sources of variations in social inequalities and differential contributions of the temporal…”
Get full text