Empirical study of analogy-based software effort estimation

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-158

  Walkerden, Fiona ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALOGY BASED SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE SIZE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033336424     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009872202035     Document Type: Article

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