It's a work that people love to make Youtube videos out of, and is interesting. "Where are the missing bullet/flak holes?" is the question people should be ask

It's a work that people love to make Youtube videos out of, and is interesting. "Where are the missing bullet/flak holes?" is the question people should be asking, rather than just armoring the places that are obviously bullet-ridden. The paper is much more technical than you would think from the popular tale (Lagrange multipliers, etc). I believe they did other story-worthy statistical feats, like estimating the size of the German tank fleet by observing the serial numbers of captured tanks.