Classification of fault-prone software modules: Prior probabilities, costs, and model evaluation

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 275-298

  Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Allen, Edward B ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Cross validation; Data splitting; Fault prone; Misclassification; Nonparametric discriminant analysis; Resubstitution; Software quality modeling

Indexed keywords

CROSS-VALIDATION; DATA SPLITTING; FAULT-PRONE; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; NONPARAMETRIC DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RESUBSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE QUALITY MODELING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EVALUATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

NONPARAMETRIC DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE QUALITY MODELING;

EID: 0032156744     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009736205722     Document Type: Article

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