Software cost estimation with incomplete data

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 890-908

  Strike, Kevin ^a   Emam, Khaled El ^b   Madhavji, Nazim ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost modelling; Data quality; Imputation; Missing data; Software cost estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ACCOUNTING; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

IMPUTATION TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0035481267     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.962560     Document Type: Article

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