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Burton H. Singer
Researcher at University of Florida
Publications - 301
Citations - 37772
Burton H. Singer is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Malaria. The author has an hindex of 87, co-authored 291 publications receiving 33943 citations. Previous affiliations of Burton H. Singer include Rockefeller University & Yale University.
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A method for minimizing the impact of distributional assumptions in econometric models for duration data
TL;DR: In this article, a nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator for the distribution of unobservables and a computational strategy for implementing it is developed. But the estimator does not account for population variation in observed and unobserved variables unless it is assumed that individuals are homogeneous.
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The Contours of Positive Human Health
Carol D. Ryff,Burton H. Singer +1 more
TL;DR: This article puts forth an explicit operational formulation of positive human health that goes beyond prevailing "absence of illness" criteria and delineates possible physiological substrates of human flourishing and offers future directions for understanding the biology of positive health.
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Know Thyself and Become What You are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being
Carol D. Ryff,Burton H. Singer +1 more
TL;DR: Ryff as mentioned in this paper revisited key messages from Aristotle's Nichomacean Ethics to strengthen conceptual foundations of eudaimonic well-being, and examined ideas about positive human functioning from existential and utilitarian philosophy as well as clinical, developmental, and humanistic psychology.
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Price of Adaptation—Allostatic Load and Its Health Consequences: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging
TL;DR: An operational definition of allostatic load is presented, along with preliminary evidence of its predictive validity in relation to salient outcomes of aging, to provide the basis for a more comprehensive assessment of major risks in the aging process.
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Allostatic load as a marker of cumulative biological risk: MacArthur studies of successful aging
TL;DR: AL was a better predictor of mortality and decline in physical functioning than either the syndrome X or primary mediator components alone and the findings support the concept of AL as a measure of cumulative biological burden.