ivanciric/gtp-estimator

German Tank Problem Estimator

GtpEstimator

German Tank Problem estimator in PHP, _(*1)

Installation

In composer.json file add the following in the require array:, _(*2)

``` bash "ivanciric/gtp-estimator": "0.0.*", <sub>(*3)</sub>

## Usage

See example.php file.


Suppose k = 4 tanks with serial numbers 19, 40, 42 and 60 are captured. The maximal observed serial number, m = 60. The unknown total number of tanks is called N.

The formula for estimating the total number of tanks suggested by the frequentist approach outlined below is

    N ≈ m + m/k − 1 = 74 

Using GtpEstimator:

$estimate = Ivanciric\GtpEstimator\GtpEstimator::estimate(4, 60); ```, <sub>(*4)</sub>

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem, <sub>(*5)</sub>