A Hand-Computation Determination of Kill Probability for Weapons Having Spherical Lethal Volume

DOI10.1287/OPRE.5.3.416MaRDI QIDQ5378748zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. W. Lilliefors

Publication date 3 June 2019

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.5.3.416

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts (62P30) Computational methods for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-08) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90)

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