
60 ◾ Software Metrics
there is only one admissible transformation: the identity transformation.
at is, there is only one way in which the measurement can be made, so
M and M′ must be equal. e absolute scale has the following properties:
• e measurement for an absolute scale is made simply by counting
the number of elements in the entity set.
• e attribute always takes the form “number of occurrences of x in
the entity.”
• ere is only one possible measurement mapping, namely the actual
count, and there is only one way to count elements.
• All arithmetic analysis of the resulting count is meaningful.
ere are many examples of absolute ...