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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
Content preview from Software Metrics, 3rd Edition
Analyzing Software Measurement Data 245
four parts. We dene the box length, d, to be the distance from the upper
quartile to the lower; thus, d = u l. Next, we dene the tails of the dis-
tribution. ese points represent the theoretical bounds between which
we are likely to nd all the data points if the distribution is normal. If
the data is on an interval, ratio, or absolute scale, the theoretical upper
tail value is the point u + 1.5d, and the lower tail value is l 1.5d. ese
theoretical values must then be truncated to the nearest actual data point
to avoid meaningless concepts (such as negative LOC) and to demonstrate
the essentia ...
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ISBN: 9781439838228