United States military involvements since 1775 modeled as a Markov Process
Institution: | Naval Postgraduate School |
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Department: | Department of Operations Analysis |
Year: | 1970 |
Record ID: | 1508008 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10945/15205 |
Unclassified historical data concerning the United States involvement in military conflicts is used to model the behavioral patterns of the past as a Markov Process. The stochastic properties of the model was calculated and their usefulness as tools in the study of cost-effectiveness is discussed.