A procedure for analyzing unbalanced datasets

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 278-301

  Kitchenham, Barbara ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Benchmarking data; Residual analysis; Software metrics; Statistical analysis; Unbalanced datasets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001688427     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.677185     Document Type: Article

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