An analysis of stochastic duels involving fixed rates of fire
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Authors
Anderson, David Wiley
Subjects
Stochastic duel
Fixed rate of fire
Fixed rate of fire
Advisors
Taylor, James G.
Date of Issue
1971-03
Date
1971-03
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The thesis presents an analysis of stochastic duels involving two opposing weapon systems with constant rates of fire. The duel was developed as a stationary Markov chain with stochastic matrices of transition probabilities constructed from the single shot kill probabilities of the weapon systems. A comparison was made of the presented Markov chain analyses results with results from other accepted conditional probability methods. As expected, this comparison established the validity of the Markov chain analysis and indicated advantages of the Markov chain approach in analysis of discrete process stochastic duels. The analysis was then extended to the two versus one duel where the three weapon systems were assumed to have fixed rates of fire.
Type
Thesis
Description
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Department
Operations Research
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
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Sponsors
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Format
58 p.
Citation
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