An Empirical Study of the Effect of Power Law Distribution on the Interpretation of OO Metrics

Table 2

Descriptive statistics for jBPM system.

	CBO	NOC	DIT	RFC	WMC	NOM	NOV	SLOC
Mean	3.5	0.8	1.9	11.8	8.5	.19	0.7	35.8
Median	2	0	2	7	4	.00	1	18
Mode	0	0	1	3	2	0	0	13
Standard dev.	4.3	3.3	1.2	15.2	15.1	1.584	1.1	60.7
Kurtosis	32.4	120.8	−0.1	31.7	69.6	244.2	27.3	58.3
Skewness	4.2	10.0	0.6	4.4	6.7	14.886	4.1	6.2
Minimum	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maximum	48	49	6	164	223	28	11	849