An empirical study of ICASE learning curves and probability bounds for software development effort

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1086-1096

  Pendharkar, Parag C ^a   Subramanian, Girish H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Chernoff bound; Learning curve theory; Moment generating functions; Neural networks; Probability bounds; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; CHERNOFF BOUND; LEARNING CURVE THEORY; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY BOUNDS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34447262088     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.07.029     Document Type: Article

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