A simulation tool for efficient analogy based cost estimation

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-68

  Angelis, L ^a,b   Stamelos, I ^a,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Department of Informatics of AUTh ^*  (Greece)

^c IEEE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bootstrap samples; Confidence intervals; Distance metrics; Estimation by analogy; Regression models; Software cost estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BOOTSTRAP METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISTANCE METRICS; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL SIMULATION TOOL;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034156542     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009897800559     Document Type: Article

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