Making inferences with small numbers of training sets

IEE Proceedings: Software

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 123-130

  Kirsopp, C ^a   Shepperd, M ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; INFERENCE ENGINES;

SOFTWARE PROJECT PREDICTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036807816     PISSN: 14625970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-sen:20020695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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