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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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Analyzing Software Measurement Data 255
6.3.7 Linear Regression
Having identied a relationship using box plots, scatter plots, or other
techniques, and having evaluated the strength of the association between
two variables, our next step is expressing the nature of the association in
some way. Linear regression is a popular and useful method for expressing
an association as a linear formula. e linear regression technique is based
on a scatter plot. Each pair of attributes is expressed as a data point, (x
i
, y
i
),
and then the technique calculates the line of best t among the points.
us, our goal is to express attribute y, the dependen ...
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ISBN: 9781439838228