Benchmarking quality measurement

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 449-462

  Moses, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agreement most of the time; Bayesian inference; Error rates; Prediction systems; Rejection rates; Software quality

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FORECASTING; INDUSTRY; INFERENCE ENGINES;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; ERROR RATE; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; REJECTION RATES; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 36549087379     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-007-9025-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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