Outlier elimination in construction of software metric models

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1484-1488

  Chan, Victor K Y ^a   Wong, W Eric ^b  

^a MACAO POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (Macao)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Least of Median Squares (LMS); Models; Outliers; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; METRIC SYSTEM; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DATA SAMPLES; LEAST OF MEDIAN SQUARES (LMS); SOFTWARE METRICS MODELS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 35248862569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1244002.1244319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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