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Volume 2: Building a Specific Model

Volume 2: « Building a Specific Model » focuses on the building of ‘specific’ cost estimating models. Understanding the procedures is key in creating successful specific models; so all these procedures (classical and new) are described in this volume.

Contents: Part 1: Population and Sample.- Describing a Population.- Typical Distributions.- Part 2: Dealing with One Variable Only.- Data Analysis of Two Variables.- Simultaneous Data Analysis on J Quantitative Variables.- Working with Qualitative Variables.- Part 3: Finding the Center of the Cost Distribution : Choosing a Metric.- Looking for the Dynamic Center: The Bi-linear Cases.- Using Several Quantitative Parameters: The Linear Cases.- Using Qualitative Variables.- Non-linear Relationships.- Part 4: Studying the Additive Residuals.- The Other Residuals.- Part 5: From Sample to Population.- Building the Model.

2006 XXXVI, 362 p. 171 illus. Hardcover
Decision Engineering
ISBN 1-84628-042-7

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