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

Table 20

Power law fits for the NOV metric in JFreeChart releases.

Version	𝛼	𝑥min	𝑃	Mean	Std. dev.
0.6.0	3.5	6	0.63	Finite	Finite
0.9.4	2.01	2	0.31	Finite	Infinite
0.9.15	2.31	3	0.30	Finite	Infinite
0.9.21	2.41	3	0.79	Finite	Infinite
1.0.0	2.73	4	0.27	Finite	Infinite
1.0.2	2.69	4	0.46	Finite	Infinite
1.0.5	2.67	4	0.29	Finite	Infinite
1.0.6	2.71	4	0.52	Finite	Infinite
1.0.8	2.69	4	0.59	Finite	Infinite
1.0.9	2.69	4	0.56	Finite	Infinite
1.0.10	2.68	4	0.65	Finite	Infinite
1.0.11	2.71	4	0.62	Finite	Infinite