An analysis and development of a production predictor model for the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program.
Authors
Hopkinson, William C.
Subjects
Army ROTC Program
regression analysis
regression analysis
Advisors
Larson, Harold J.
Date of Issue
1988-09
Date
September 1988
Publisher
Language
en_US
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to examine and model the Army Reserve Officer Training
Corps (ROTC) commissioning process in terms of several possible explanatory variables.
Each of the variables, which included unemployment rate, average yearly college tuition,
ROTC enrollment by class, advertising budget, scholarship program and propensity towards
military service, were analyzed for trends in the data with respect to the dependent
variable, the number of second lieutenants commissioned in a year. Four regression
models were fitted to numerous combinations of the explanatory variables and the dependent
variable. Three variables were found to be significant and possess the potential
to predict the number of second lieutenants commissioned each year within the range
of the data used for modeling.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Operations Research
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
57 p.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.