Combining empirical results in software engineering

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 811-821

  Pickard, Lesley M ^a   Kitchenham, Barbara A ^a   Jones, Peter W ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Meta analysis; Software engineering; Vote counting

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; VOTE COUNTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032304123     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(98)00101-3     Document Type: Article

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