Weapon Accuracy Assessment for Elliptical Normal Miss Distances

Abstract

Weapon accuracy assessment for elliptical normal miss distances is accomplished through the use of statistical tolerance circles. While tolerance circles for circular normal miss distances have been available in the literature for some time, such circles for the elliptical normal case have not been available heretofore. They are formulated for the bivariate normal distributions with unequal variances. The procedure is approximate in that it provides circles which contain at least 100(P)% of the population with approximately (vice exactly) 100(gamma)% confidence. Its closeness is examined in detail and is shown to provide confidence which is very close to 100(gamma)%. The procedure is extended to the uncorrelated k dimensional normal distribution but the closeness is not studied for k > 2. It application is general and is not restricted to miss distance data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA052192

Entities

People

  • A. E. Taub
  • M. A. Thomas

Organizations

  • Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Command And Control
  • Data Science
  • Information Science
  • Miss Distance
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Normal Distribution
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Sampling
  • Simulations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Regression Analysis.