Distributions of personnel in units

name:unit_sizes
path:unit_sizes.csv
format:csv

Distributions of the number of personnel per unit (e.g. regiment,

Using the distribution of personnel per regiment from Livermore’s (1900) examples of regiment sizes, and the table of units in Eicher and Eicher (2002), this data is the distribution of personnel in each type of unit (company, regiment, brigade, division, corps, army, etc.). See the source for the details of how this data was simuated. This data is used for estimates of strenghts in battles when the source gives only the number and types of units (e.g. Clodfelter (2008) battle data: forces, CWSAC Report (1993) battle data: forces, CWSAC Report Updates battle data: force strengths).

Sources: [jrnold], [eicher2002civil], [Livermore1900]

Schema

belligerent string belligerent
unit_type string unit_type
mean number mean
sd number sd
p025 number p025
p25 number p25
median number median
p75 number p75
p975 number p975

belligerent

title:belligerent
type:string
format:default

unit_type

title:unit_type
type:string
format:default

mean

title:mean
type:number
format:default

sd

title:sd
type:number
format:default

p025

title:p025
type:number
format:default

p25

title:p25
type:number
format:default

median

title:median
type:number
format:default

p75

title:p75
type:number
format:default

p975

title:p975
type:number
format:default