A further empirical investigation of the relationship between MRE and project size

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-161

  Stensrud, Erik ^b   Foss, Tron ^b   Kitchenham, Barbara ^a   Myrtveit, Ingunn ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Empirical validation; Evaluation metrics; Magnitude of relative error; Project cost estimation; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; COSTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS;

EVALUATION METRICS; PROJECT COST ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE PROJECT PREDICTION MODELS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038287473     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023010612345     Document Type: Article

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