A Reprint of 'A Method of Estimating Plane Vulnerability Based on Damage of Survivors.

Abstract

This research contribution consists of a series of eight memoranda originally published by the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University for the National Defense Research Committee in 1943 on methods of estimating the vulnerability of various parts of an aircraft based on damage to surviving planes. The methodology presented continues to be valuable in defense analysis and, therfore, has been reprinted by the Center for Naval Analyses in order to achieve wider dissemination. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA091073

Entities

People

  • Abraham Wald

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computations
  • Confidence Limits
  • Data Analysis
  • Equations
  • Fuel Systems
  • Inequalities
  • Machine Guns
  • Mathematics
  • National Security
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Security
  • Universities
  • Vulnerability
  • War Colleges

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