How to find relevant data for effort estimation?

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 255-264

  Kocaguneli, Ekrem ^a   Menzies, Tim ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross resource; k NN; Software cost estimation; Within resource

Indexed keywords

NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANALOGY BASED ESTIMATION; CROSS RESOURCES; EFFORT ESTIMATION; INSTANCE SELECTION; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATIONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TRAINING DATA; WITHIN RESOURCES;

COST ESTIMATING;

EID: 84858715036     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/esem.2011.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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