A model of the commit size distribution of open source

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7741 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 52-66

  Kolassa, Carsten ^a   Riehle, Dirk ^b   Salim, Michel A ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL UNITS; GOODNESS OF FIT; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; PROBABILISTIC DISTRIBUTION; PROJECT SIZE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84872522864     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35843-2_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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