
doi: 10.1155/2018/5930109
Circular Error Probability (CEP) is defined as the radius of a circle where the probability of an impact point being inside is 50%, which is also widely used as a measure of the guidance weapon systems’ precision. In order to achieve a fusion of various test information, Bayesian methods and improved Bayesian methods have been extensively studied in calculating the CEP. Nevertheless, these methods could fail when there exists unknown systematic bias in the prior information. Therefore, a novel method called Bayesian estimation based on representative points (BERP) with an optimization procedure for determining the optimal number of representative points is proposed in this paper. Explicit theoretical analyses demonstrate that the BERP outperforms the classical Bayesian methods when fusing the slightly biased prior information and also give the bound of the systematic bias for stopping using the heavily biased prior information. Moreover, when the systematic bias is within the bound, simulation results indicate that our method is credible and outperforms the classical Bayesian method in calculating the CEP of guidance weapon systems.
Estimation and detection in stochastic control theory, Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects), Application models in control theory, Bayesian inference, Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis, Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics
Estimation and detection in stochastic control theory, Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects), Application models in control theory, Bayesian inference, Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis, Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics
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