Estimating Poisson Error Rates When Debugging Software

Gerald J. Lieberman and Sheldon M. Ross
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Gerald J. Lieberman: Stanford University, Department of Operations Research
Sheldon M. Ross: University of California, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Chapter 29 in Contributions to Probability and Statistics, 1989, pp 459-464 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Five estimators for the vector of mistake rates of errors discovered in debugging software are proposed and compared for a model in which an unknown number of errors yield numbers of mistakes having independend Poisson distributions.

Keywords: Maximum Likelihood Estimate; Conditional Distribution; Maximum Likelihood Estimator; Software Reliability; Unknown Number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3678-8_32

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