Category: model building
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Modelling time to next reported fault
After the arrival of a fault report for a program, what is the expected elapsed time until the next fault report arrives (assuming that the report relates to a coding mistake and is not a request for enhancement or something the user did wrong, and the number of active users remains the same and the…
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Best tool for measuring lots of source code
Human written source code contains various common usage patterns. This blog has analysed a variety of these patterns, and in a few cases built models of processes that replicate these patterns. The data for this analysis has primarily comes from programs written in C and Java, because these are the languages that researchers most often…
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Remotivating data analysed for another purpose
The motivation for fitting a regression model has a major impact on the model created. Some of the motivations include: practicing software developers/managers wanting to use information from previous work to help solve a current problem, researchers wanting to get their work published seeks to build a regression model that show they have discovered something…