Resumen: We show that the Stirling numbers of the first and second kind can be represented in terms of moments of appropriate random variables. This allows us to obtain, in a unified way, a variety of old and new explicit expressions and integral representations of such numbers. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1186/s13662-019-2337-4 Año: 2019 Publicado en: Advances in Difference Equations 2019, 1 (2019), 398 [11 pp.] ISSN: 1687-1839 Originalmente disponible en: Texto completo de la revista