We examine how key early family circumstances affect mortality risks decades later. Early-life conditions are measured by parental mortality, parental fertility (e.g., offspring sibship size, parental age at offspring birth), religious upbringing, and parental socioeconomic status. Prior to...

The problem of estimating the parameters in a generalized linear model when a covariate is subject to censoring is studied. A new method based on an estimating function approach is proposed. The method does not assume a parametric form for the distribution of the response given the regressors...

The Rayleigh criterion in optics states that two point sources of equal intensity are 'barely resolved' when the maximum of the diffraction pattern of one source overlaps the first minimum of the diffraction pattern of the second source. Although useful for rough comparisons of optical systems,...

A Gaussian random measure is a mean zero Gaussian process [eta](A), indexed by sets A in a [sigma]-field, such that [eta]([Sigma]Ai)=[Sigma][eta](Ai), where [Sigma]Ai indicates disjoint union and the series on the right is required to converge everywhere, so [eta] is a random signed measure....