Michael A. Long is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Insecurity and Inequality Research at Oklahoma State University. He has written widely on food insecurity, environmental sociology, sustainability, public health, and quantitative methodology. His most recent book is Applying Benford's Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data (with P. Stretesky, K. Berry, J. Johnston, M. Lynch, 2023). Andrew S. Fullerton is Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. He has written widely on job insecurity, quantitative methodology, social stratification, and political sociology. He has published several articles on regression models for ordinal outcomes and a book titled Ordered Regression Models: Parallel, Partial, and Non¿Parallel Alternatives (with J. Xu, 2016). Paul B. Stretesky is Professor of Criminology and Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research interests include food insecurity, environmental crime and justice, quantitative methods, and violence. His most recent book, Applying Benford's Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data (2023), was cöauthored with M. Long, K. Berry, J. Johnston, and M. Lynch.
