Relative Robustness of Several CEP Estimators

Abstract

This thesis presents a discussion of the problems involved in estimation of Circular Error Probable (CEP). Several estimators are compared through simulation, under two models; the power model and the Rayleigh model. Several measures of effectiveness are calculated for each of the competing estimators. It is found that maximum likelihood estimation based on the power distribution performs well for heavy tailed distributions; the Rayleigh unbiased estimator performs well for most other situations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA025414

Entities

People

  • Tzu-ming Chen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Circular Error Probable
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Data Science
  • Estimators
  • Impact Point
  • Information Science
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Miss Distance
  • Operations Research
  • Power Distribution
  • Random Variables
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Theses
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.