how to improve the calibration of cost models

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 136-140

  Ebrahimi, Nader B ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Likelihood function; Measurement error; Normal distribution; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COST ACCOUNTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COST ESTIMATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032652835     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.748922     Document Type: Article

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