THE DISTRIBUTION OF RADIAL ERROR AND ITS STATISTICAL APPLICATION IN WAR GAMING

Abstract

The report presents a unified treatment of the assumptions and theorems concerning the distribution of radial error, and demonstrates its statistical application in war gaming. The density function and cumulative distribution function of the radial error are derived and graphed for one, two, and three dimensions. For each of these cases, formulas are given for the expectation, standard deviation, and median of the radial error. Tables of pertinent conversion are provided. Results are given for the distribution of detonation points in three dimensions that are useful in war games employing atomic rockets or torpedoes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 29, 1958
Accession Number
AD0607019

Entities

People

  • H. P. Edmundson

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Science
  • Detonations
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Ground Zero
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Statistics
  • Three Dimensional

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  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
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