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Lanchester square-law battles: Transient and terminal distributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Charles M. Goldie
Charles M. Goldie*
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University of Sussex
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Abstract

For a battle governed by the stochastic version of Lanchester's square law the transient distribution of state is found; also various terminal distributions. The terminal distributions arise also in certain related random walks.

Keywords

BATTLESCONFLICTSLANCHESTER SQUARE-LAWMARKOV CHAINSTRANSIENT DISTRIBUTIONTERMINAL DISTRIBUTION

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1977 , pp. 604 - 610
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1977 

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