Reliable confidence intervals for software effort estimation

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 475, Issue , 2009, Pages 211-220

  Papadopoulos, Harris ^a   Papatheocharous, Efi ^b   Andreou, Andreas S ^b  

^a FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; CONFORMAL PREDICTORS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84887253684     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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