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The inaccurate conception

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Some thoughts on the accuracy of estimates.

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Boehm, B. Software Engineering Economics. Prentice Hall, 1981, 311.
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McConnell, S. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. Microsoft Press, 2006.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 3
Urban sensing: out of the woods
March 2008
81 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1325555
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Published: 01 March 2008
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