Refinement and extension of shrinkage techniques in loss rate estimation of Marine Corps officer manpower models/

This thesis is a continuation of previous work to apply modern multiparameter estimation techniques to the problem of estimating attrition rates for a large number of small inventory cells in manpower planning models used by the U.S. Marine Corps. The main advances involve the promising introduction...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickinson, Charles R.
Other Authors: Read, Robert R.
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23375