Ian A McGregor

Biographic Data

ID5862346
NAMEIan A McGregor
GIVEN NAMESIan A
FAMILY NAMEMcGregor
SIGNATUREMCGREGOR I A
AFFILIATIONSMRC Keneba, The Gambia, UK
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS161
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX2

  • A Life History Approach to Fertility Rates in Rural Gambia: Evidence for Trade-offs or Phenotypic Correlations?

    R Sear, R Mace et al.CHAPTERThe Biodemography of Human…2003

  • The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia

    Open AccessR Sear, R Mace et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2003

  • The effects of kin on child mortality in rural gambia

    Open AccessR Sear, Fiona Steele et al.ARTICLEDemography2002Cited by: 81References: 50

    We analyzed data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural area of the Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event-history models were used to demonstrate that having a living mother, maternal grandmother, or elder sisters had a significant positive effect on the survival probabilities of children, whereas having a living father, paternal grandmother, grandfather, or elder brothers had no …

  • Compensatory conviction in the face of personal uncertainty: Going to extremes and being oneself

    Ian Mcgregor, Ian A McGregor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2001Cited by: 80References: 51

    Study 1 participants' self-integrity (C. M. Steele. 1988) was threatened by deliberative mind-set (S. E. Taylor & P. M. Gollwitzer, 1995) induced uncertainty. They masked the uncertainty with more extreme conviction about social issues. An integrity-repair exercise after the threat, however, eliminated uncertainty and the conviction response. In Study 2, the same threat caused clarified values and more self-consistent personal goals. Two other un…

  • A birth-to-maturity longitudinal study of heights and weights in two West African (Gambian) villages, 1951–1975

    Open AccessW Z Billewicz, Ian A McGregorARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1982

    Records of heights and weights kept for more than 25 years for two neighbouring Gambian villages have been used to describe the pattern of growth. There was no secular trend in height. Children who died during the investigation were smaller and lighter than the survivors, but the interval between the last available dry-season measurement and death was not associated with the degree of deficit in height and weight. The presence of seasonal variati…

  • The Demography of Two West African (Gambian) Villages, 1951–75

    Open AccessW Z Billewicz, Ian A McGregorARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1981

    From a longitudinal study over 25 years (1951–75) of two adjacent Gambian villages, the data allow estimates of population growth, birth rates, age-specific mortality, female fertility, and infertility rates in the two sexes. Such intensive but small scale local inquiries provide valuable information on topics not covered in official published statistics, and also data from which the reliability of some census details can be estimated. There are …

  • Eruption of permanent teeth in West African (Gambian) children in relation to age, sex and physique

    Open AccessW Z Billewicz, Ian A McGregorARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1975

    Dental records of 635 West African (Gambian) children within the age range of 4.5-14 yr yielded 2108 examinations for boys and 1863 for girls. There was no difference between eruption ages of homologous permanent teeth on the left and the right side of the same jaw. Except for PM1 and PM2, teeth in the lower jaw erupted earlier. There was a clear sex difference in eruption age, which was earlier in females. Calendar age can be estimated from the …