On building prediction systems for software engineers

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 175-182

  Shepperd, Martin ^a   Cartwright, Michelle ^a   Kadoda, Gada ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICS;

COST ESTIMATION; COST MODELS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATION; PREDICTION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0034314869     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026582314146     Document Type: Article

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