Best Practices for Statistically Validating Modeling and Simulation (M and S) Tools Used in Operational Testing

Abstract

Models and simulations are increasingly becoming an essential element of operational test and evaluation. Collecting sufficient data to evaluate system performance is often not possible due to time, cost, and resource restrictions, safety concerns, or lack of adequate /representative live threats.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 11, 2015
Accession Number
AD1123614

Entities

People

  • Kelly Mcginty
  • Laura Freeman
  • Rebecca Dickinson

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Calibration
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Experimental Data
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Information Science
  • Intervals
  • Military Acquisition
  • Miss Distance
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Validation
  • Verification

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Systems Analysis and Design