Class noise detection based on software metrics and ROC curves

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 4867-4877

  Catal, Cagatay ^a   Alan, Oral ^a   Balkan, Kerime ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Metric threshold values; Noise detection; Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve; Software fault prediction; Software metrics; Software quality

Indexed keywords

METRIC THRESHOLD VALUES; NOISE DETECTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC) CURVE; SOFTWARE FAULT PREDICTION; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NASA; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 80051550183     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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