PROBABILITIES IN A SEQUENCE OF CORRELATED EVENTS.

Abstract

Contents: Notation and Elementary Relations; Survival Probabilities: The Fundamental Difference Equations; The Stationary Case; Markoff's Normal Distribution in the Stationary Case; The Law of Small Numbers in the Stationary Case; The Law of Small Numbers in the Non-Stationary Case; The Law of Small Numbers with Constant Correlation; Markoff Processes with Superimposed Stationary Dispersion; Continuation: Non-Stationary Dispersion; Non-Stationary One-Step Gamma outcome Processes; and Application to the Gunnery Problem.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1947
Accession Number
AD0807345

Entities

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Difference Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Dispersions
  • Equations
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Normal Distribution
  • Notation
  • Probability
  • Sequences
  • Stationary
  • Survival

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Statistical inference.