An Empirical Study of Social Networks Metrics in Object-Oriented Software

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</svg></span></td><td align="center"> Yule-Simon</td><td align="center"> Lognormal</td><td align="center"> Power-law</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Fan-in</td><td align="center"> 0.999</td><td align="center"> 0.971</td><td align="center"> 0.998</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Fan-out</td><td align="center"> 0.995</td><td align="center"> 0.989</td><td align="center"> 0.997</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Size</td><td align="center"> 0.987</td><td align="center"> 0.999</td><td align="center"> 0.998</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Ties</td><td align="center">0.998</td><td align="center"> 0.999</td><td align="center"> 0.999</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Determination coefficients for the three distribution functions (Eclipse-3.1).

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