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Demonstrating Empirical Procedures
The objective of this chapter is to demonstrate and present the practical application of
the empirical concepts and procedures presented in previous chapters. This chapter also
follows the report structure given in Chapter 9. The work presented in this chapter is
based on change prediction.
The three important criteria for comparing results across various studies are (1) the
study size, (2) the way in which the performance of the developed models is measured,
and (3) statistical tests used. Also, the availability of data sets has always been a constraint
in the software engineering research. The use of ...