Improving analogy-based software cost estimation by a resampling method

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-230

  Mittas, Nikolaos ^a   Athanasiades, Marinos ^a   Angelis, Lefteris ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Estimation by analogy; Iterated bagging; Non parametric regression; Software cost estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ITERATED BAGGING; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 37249083398     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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