DocumentCode
50600
Title
How Do I Know Whether to Trust a Research Result?
Author
Shepperd, Martin
Author_Institution
Brunel Univ., Uxbridge, UK
Volume
32
Issue
1
fYear
2015
fDate
Jan.-Feb. 2015
Firstpage
106
Lastpage
109
Abstract
A meta-analysis indicated that some areas of computer science research are subject to researcher bias. However, rather than mistrust all scientific research, researchers should examine research to determine its validity.
Keywords
computer science; trusted computing; computer science research; meta-analysis; researcher bias; scientific research result; trust; Internet; Research and development; Software engineering; Statistical analysis; Systematics; Matthews correlation coefficient; meta-analysis; research results; researcher bias; scientific research; software defect prediction; software engineering; statistical significance;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MS.2015.8
Filename
7030205
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