Predicting Coast Guard enlisted attrition
By: Douglas Allen Blakemore
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: United States; United States. Coast Guard; Personnel management
Description: This study examines enlisted attrition behavior for the  U.S. Coast Guard and develops a model that projects attrition  figures. Survival analysis techniques are used to analyze the  empirical attrition behaviors associated with an individuals  sex, race, marital status, and military occupational skill  (MOS). In this study males tend to have higher survival  probabilities than females, non-caucasians higher than  caucasians, and married persons higher than those not married.  Aviation MOSs have the highest survival probabilities and  technical MOSs have the lowest.  Modelled survivor functions are developed for two  paygrades because each contain small personnel inventories.  These modelled survivor functions do not fit the data as well  as desired but are nonetheless used pending the development of  sharper alternatives.  Finally a counting model based on the Binomial  Distribution is developed that projects monthly enlisted  attrition figures.
Notes: Thesis Advisor: Read, Robert R.

"March 1992."

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 51)

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US Coast Guard (USCG) author.

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