August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
396 pages
12h 21m
English
book
IT Security Metrics: A Practical Framework for Measuring Security & Protecting Data
by Lance Hayden
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Index
References to figures are in italics.
A
academics, 145–146
agreement, measuring differences in, 13
ALE. See annualized loss expectancy (ALE)
ambiguous data, 293
analysis, 112–113
applied analysis, 113–114
central tendency, 125–127
confidence intervals, 135–136
consistency and accuracy of data, 118–119
content and text analysis, 143–144, 147
correlation, 137
data sources, 116–117
descriptive statistics, 122–130
dispersion, 127–129
exploratory analysis, 114–115
goals and objectives, 116
inferential analysis, 215–221
inferential statistics, 130–135
inter-rater reliability, 136–137
longitudinal, 137–139
missing data and outliers, 119–120
mixed method analysis, 141–147
narrative analysis, 283–286
pre-project GQM analysis, 153
process cost analysis, ...
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