Closed Form Precision

Measuring Precision showed how a single parameter σ characterizes the precision of a shooting system.

This σ is the parameter for the Rayleigh distribution with probability density function \(\frac{x}{\sigma^2}e^{-x^2/2\sigma^2}\).

Using the characteristics of the Rayleigh distribution we can immediately compute the three most useful precision measures:

Radial Standard Deviation \(RSD = \sigma \sqrt{2}\). The expected sample RSD of a group of size n is \[RSD_n = \sigma \sqrt{\frac{2}{c_{G}(n)}} \approx \sigma \sqrt{2 - \frac{1}{2n} - \frac{7}{16n^2} - \frac{19}{64n^3}}\]

Mean Radius \(MR = \sigma \sqrt{\frac{\pi}{2}}\). The expected sample MR of a group of size n is \[MR_n = \sigma \sqrt{\frac{\pi}{2 c_{B}(n)}}\ = \sigma \sqrt{\frac{\pi (n - 1)}{2 n}}\]

Circular Error Probable \(CEP = \sigma \sqrt{\ln(4)}\)