Career Analyzer Planning Tool (CAPT)

Abstract

The overall objective of this research is to analyze the impact of a Sailor's personal attributes and demographics as well as the prevailing macroeconomic conditions and Navy policy on a Sailor's career. In this study a transition probability for each Sailor is estimated. This model allows investigators to examine many different possible scenarios, such as promotion probability, given an individual's acquisition of new skills or training, changes in geographic location, or economic downturns. The technique used is an Information Theoretic, Generalized Cross Entropy (IT-GCE) method.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA505237

Entities

People

  • Amos Golan
  • Jerry C. Crabb

Organizations

  • Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Administration
  • Data Sets
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Instructors
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Naval Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Probability
  • Schools
  • Statistics
  • Students
  • Training
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Economics
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Regression Analysis.