Accession Number:

AD0285622

Title:

A BUILDING BLOCK TECHNIQUE FOR THE STATEMENT AND SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS INVOLVING THE BIVARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, School of Engineering WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB United States

Personal Author(s):

• BUILTA,ARTHUR G.

Report Date:

1962-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

115.0

Abstract:

The Building Block Technique is a simplified method for solving problems involving two normal Gaussian statistical variables. Thistechnique is intended for engineers who are not versed in statistics. Graphs and tables of precomputed statistical functions, and a catalogof these functions in the form of geometrical analogs building blocks are presented. The paper is self-contained s if the problem is statedusing the building blocks, the answer is the algebraic sum of their values. A new function, AB,T, the probability included in an offsetangle of the unit circular normal distribution, is introduced and tabulated to five decimal places.

Descriptors:

• ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
• ANALYTIC GEOMETRY
• INTEGRALS
• NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
• STATISTICAL dISTRIBUTIONs

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability
• Numerical Mathematics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE