Attrition models of the Ardennes campaign

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-22

  Fricker Jr , Ronald D ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Battle of the Bulge; Empirical validation; Linear regression; Warfare modeling; World War II

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LANCHESTER EQUATIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NAVAL WARFARE;

EID: 0031996530     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199802)45:1<1::AID-NAV1>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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