Predicting with sparse data

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 987-998

  Shepperd, M ^a   Cartwright, M ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical data; Expert judgement; Prediction; Software project effort; Sparse data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROJECT EFFORT; SPARSE DATA METHOD;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035506994     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.965339     Document Type: Article

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