A probabilistic model for predicting software development effort

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 615-624

  Pendharkar, Parag C ^a   Subramanian, Girish H ^a   Rodger, James A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief networks; Probability theory; Software effort estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DATA MINING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS; BAYESIAN PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILISTIC MODEL; RISK ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 25844452838     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.75     Document Type: Article

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