Tests for Consistency of Vulnerability Models

Abstract

Small sample live-fire testing has been recently revived in the US army's study of armored vehicle vulnerability. A statistically based procedure is proposed to test for consistency between these live-fire results and the predictions of computer simulation models. This procedure is compared with other candidate statistical procedures in their ability to reject false simulation based estimates of kill probabilities. Keywords: Model consistency, Armored vehicles, Density function, Ballistics, Cumulative distribution function, Hypothesis testing, Tanks (Combat Vehicles).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA213899

Entities

People

  • David W. Webb

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Commerce
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Consistency
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Kill Probabilities
  • Munitions
  • Probability
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Vehicles
  • Vulnerability

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  • Military Science
  • Regression Analysis.