An Empirical analysis of software effort estimation with outlier elimination

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-32

  Seo, Yeong Seok ^a   Yoon, Kyung A ^a   Bae, Doo Hwan ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Effort estimation; Outlier elimination; Software data quality

Indexed keywords

COBALT; CURVE FITTING; ENGINEERING; MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

DATA QUALITIES; DATA SETS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EFFORT ESTIMATIONS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ESTIMATION ACCURACIES; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LEAST SQUARES; LEAST TRIMMED SQUARES; OUTLIER ELIMINATION; OUTLIER ELIMINATIONS; PROJECT DATUMS; SOFTWARE DATA QUALITY; SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATIONS; SOFTWARE EFFORTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMMUNITIES; WITH OR WITHOUT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 57049145989     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370788.1370796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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