A practical classification-rule for software-quality models

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 209-216

  Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Allen, Edward B ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification, cost of misclassification, prior probabilities, software metrics, software reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION RULES; RELIABILITY ENHANCEMENT; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0034197704     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.877340     Document Type: Article

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