These two volumes bring together important and influential articles and papers on different aspects of the history of health and welfare. The collection includes classic and more recent essays on the origins and nature of mortality decline; the early-life origins of adult health and disease;...

The general theory of optimal confidence limits for system reliability based on results of Buehler (1957) and Sudakov and references cited there (1974) is developed. Counterexamples to some results of Sudakov (1974), Winterbottom (1974) and Harris and Soms (1980, 1981) are exhibited. Numerical...

In this paper we study a generalization of the Eulerian numbers and a class of polynomials related to them. An interesting application to probability theory is given in Section 3. There we use these extended Eulerian numbers to construct an uncountably infinite family of lattice random variables...

n balls are randomly distributed into N cells so that no cell may contain more than one ball. This process is repeated m times. In addition, balls may disappear, such disappearances are independent and identically Bernoulli distributed. Conditions are given under which the number of empty cells...

In their different ways, both Thomas Malthus and Thomas McKeown raised fundamental questions about the relationship between food supply and the decline of mortality. Malthus argued that food supply was the most important constraint on population growth and McKeown claimed that an improvement in...