Dependence in target element detections induced by the environment

✍ Scribed by Mark A. Youngren

• Book ID: 102678583
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 556 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-069X
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6750(199108)38:4<567::aid-nav3220380409>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

When modeling the detection of targets in a simulation of combat, the detection process is frequently represented as a series of independent detections of individual elements of the target. This assumption ignores the effect of a common but unknown field environment within which the detections take place. In this article, multivariate survival distributions are developed for target element detections which occur in an unknown dynamic environment. A proportional hazards representation is adopted, which uses a random variable multiplying the detection rate to account for the effect of the environment. Several special cases are examined which are useful for modeling target unit detections.