Predicting Web Development Effort Using a Bayesian Network

11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mendes, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Forward stepwise regression; prediction accuracy; Web effort estimation

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BAYESIA N NETWORKS; BAYESIAN NETWORK MODELS; FORWARD STEPWISE REGRESSIONS; MODEL PROBABILITIES; NETWORK NODE; NODE PROBABILITIES; PREDICTION ACCURACY; WEB DEVELOPMENT; WEB EFFORT ESTIMATIONS; WEB PROGRAMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 85180622300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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