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Software Metrics, 3rd Edition
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Software Metrics, 3rd Edition

by Norman Fenton, James Bieman
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
617 pages
19h 10m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 6
Analyzing Software
Measurement Data
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 C ,   general techniques for designing empir-
ical studies. en, in Chapter 5, we explained the importance of good
data-gathering to support rigorous investigation. In this chapter, we turn
to the analysis of the data.
Data analysis involves several activities and assumptions:
We have a number of measurements of one or more attributes from
a number of soware entities (products, processes, or resources). We
call the set of measurements a dataset or a batch.
We expect the soware items to be comparable in some way. For exam-
ple, we may compare modules from the same so
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