Investigating the use of chronological splitting to compare software cross-company and single-company effort predictions: A replicated study

13th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mendes, Emilia ^a   Lokan, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronological split; Cross company estimation models; Effort estimation; Regression based estimation models; Single company estimation models; Software projects

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHRONOLOGICAL SPLITS; CROSS-COMPANY ESTIMATION MODELS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION MODELS; REGRESSION BASED ESTIMATION MODELS; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 85088074047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/ease2009.2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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