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SOFTWARE QUALITY JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 563-600Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-008-9054-7
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Imputation; Software quality; Missing data; Data quality; Bayesian multiple imputation
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The problem of missing values in software measurement data used in empirical analysis has led to the proposal of numerous potential solutions. Imputation procedures, for example, have been proposed to 'fill-in' the missing values with plausible alternatives. We present a comprehensive study of imputation techniques using real-world software measurement datasets. Two different datasets with dramatically different properties were utilized in this study, with the injection of missing values according to three different missingness mechanisms (MCAR, MAR, and NI). We consider the occurrence of missing values in multiple attributes, and compare three procedures, Bayesian multiple imputation, k Nearest Neighbor imputation, and Mean imputation. We also examine the relationship between noise in the dataset and the performance of the imputation techniques, which has not been addressed previously. Our comprehensive experiments demonstrate conclusively that Bayesian multiple imputation is an extremely effective imputation technique.
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