Validation methods for calibrating software effort models

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 587-595

  Menzies, Tim ^a   Port, Dan ^b   Chen, Zhihao ^c   Hihn, Jairus ^d   Stukes, Sherry ^d  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; COCOMO; Incremental cross validation

Indexed keywords

COCOMO; EFFORT ESTIMATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCREMENTAL CROSS VALIDATION;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 28244437875     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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