NHPP models for categorized software defects

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 509-524

  Liu, Zhaohui ^a   Ravishanker, Nalini ^a   Ray, Bonnie K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Conditional multinomial; Latent variables; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; VECTORS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CONDITIONAL MULTIMONIAL; LATENT VARIABLES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 30844473120     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: 15264025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asmb.604     Document Type: Article

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