On a Class of Binomial Attrition Processes

Abstract

The paper provides underlying sets of assumptions and rigorous derivations of certain static combat attrition processes. Considered are a homogeneous point fire process, a heterogeneous point fire process, and an area fire process. Each set of assumptions is complete, concise, unambiguous, and as general--both mathematically and in terms of physical interpretation--as possible. Some attention is also devoted to various approximations and computational simplifications of the models presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0780543

Entities

People

  • Alan F. Karr

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analytic Geometry
  • Attrition
  • Boundaries
  • Computations
  • Detection
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Hypotheses
  • Kill Probabilities
  • Lethality
  • Markov Processes
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Theoretical Analysis.