Draft of Cruiser Battle Damage Paper Available

The draft of my paper on modelling the survival probability of ships subject to battle damage has been posted here.

The blurp on the posting site is:

Modelling the Ability of Warships to Survive Battle Damage

This is the sequel to the earlier paper on battle damage survival modelling. In this paper I focus on WW2 cruisers hit by torpedoes, and extends the data set from RN cruisers (as used in the earlier paper) to cruisers of all of the major naval combatant powers: UK, US, Japan and Italy. 

The results for cruisers are better (in a technical sense) than those in the earlier paper, and probably as good as they are going to get using the present methodology.

More Info: This is an early draft, I have not yet decided where to send it.

Publication Date: Jul 2014

Research Interests: 

Statistics, Operations Research, Naval Warfare, Naval History, Combat Modelling,and 2 more