Eugenia Conde Author

Dudley L. Poston, Jr., is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He held adjunct professor positions at People's (Renmin) University of China, Fuzhou University, and Nanjing Normal University. He has published twenty-two books and over 380 journal articles, book chapters, and related reports, and has taught demography and statistics classes to around 1,000 graduate and 5,000 undergraduate students. Eugenia Conde is a statistical consultant at the H. W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She provides consultations to students and faculty on research methods and statistics. Layton M. Field is an associate professor at Mount St. Mary's University, and Director of the Mount Community Advancement Resources in Training, Assessment, and Service program. He specializes in research methods and statistics, and has published articles in the areas of demography, sociology, and criminal justice.