Enhancing software quality estimation using ensemble-classifier based noise filtering

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-27

  Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Zhong, Shi ^a   Joshi, Vedang ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

ACCURACY OF CLASSIFICATIONS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT DATA; SOFTWARE QUALITY ESTIMATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84883723652     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2005-9102     Document Type: Article

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