AbstractsBusiness Management & Administration

United States military involvements since 1775 modeled as a Markov Process

by Richard Roland Pariseau




Institution: Naval Postgraduate School
Department: Department of Operations Analysis
Year: 1970
Record ID: 1508008
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10945/15205


Abstract

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.