A new imputation method for small software project data sets

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-62

  Song, Qinbao ^a   Shepperd, Martin ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class mean imputation; Data imputation; k NN imputation; Missing data; Software effort prediction

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CLASS MEAN IMPUTATION (CMI); DATA SETS; SOFTWARE DATA SETS; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33750994891     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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