Maximum Likelihood Program for Sequential Testing Documentation

Abstract

Quantal response problems encountered by the Ballistic Research Laboratory, such as armor plate penetration and primer testing evaluations, have been a subject of interest for some time. A computer program developed by A. R. DiDonate and M. P. Jarnagin, Jr., has been modified and installed on the Ballistic Research Laboratory's CDC computer. The program provides maximum likelihood estimates of the mean and standard deviation of the response distribution and the standard deviations of these estimates. The response function is assumed to have a cumulative normal distribution. A nonparametric algorithm is incorporated for the cases in which maximum likelihood estimates do not exist.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA126651

Entities

People

  • Ann E. Mckaig
  • Jerry Thomas

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Armor
  • Armor Plate
  • Army
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Covariance
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Distribution Theory
  • Information Science
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Normal Distribution
  • Probability
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Regression Analysis.