Software quality prediction using mixture models with EM algorithm

Proceedings - 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software, APAQS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 69-78

  Guo, Ping ^a   Lyu, M R ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MIXTURES;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; COMPLEXITY METRICS; EARLY PREDICTION; EXPECTATION MAXIMUMS; FAULT-PRONE MODULES; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY PREDICTION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

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EID: 84960497832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APAQ.2000.883780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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