Software metrics data analysis - exploring the relative performance of some commonly used modeling techniques

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 297-316

  Gray, Andrew R ^a,b   Macdonell, Stephen G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NZCS   (New Zealand)

^c NAFIPS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONNECTIONIST METHODS; SOFTWARE METRICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0033324327     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009849100780     Document Type: Article

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