Cross-company and single-company effort models using the ISBSG database: A further replicated study

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 75-84

  Lokan, Chris ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cross company estimation models; Effort estimation; Experimental procedure; Regression based estimation models; Replication study; Single company estimation model; Software projects

Indexed keywords

CROSS-COMPANY ESTIMATION MODELS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; REGRESSION-BASED ESTIMATION MODELS; REPLICATION STUDY; SINGLE-COMPANY ESTIMATION MODEL; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247387994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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