Approximate Probability Distributions for the Extreme Spread

Abstract

The extreme spread, or greatest distance between all pairs of points on a target, is often used as a rapid measure of dispersion or precision of shot groups on a target. It is therefore desirable to know its statistical properties. Since the exact theoretical distribution has not yet been worked out, this report examines the accuracy of several approximations which are checked against large sample Monte Carlo values.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA006586

Entities

People

  • F. E. Grubbs
  • M. S. Taylor

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Data Science
  • Information Science
  • Normal Distribution
  • Numbers
  • Precision
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Statistical Samples
  • Statistical Sampling

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design