Research Article

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

Table 21

Classification performance for the three data sets.

ā€‰PrecisionRecall -measure*

CBO ā‰„ 1770%83%76%
CBO < 1751%50%50%
CBO58%60%59%

NOC 28%7%7%
NOC < 257%100%72%
NOC56%94%70%

RFC 2466%66%66%
RFC < 2450%35%41%
RFC62%58%60%

WMC 1781%88%84%
WMC < 1756%48%52%
WMC63%51%56%

LOC 23578%82%80%
LOC < 23552%50%51%
LOC62%64%63%

NOM 1178%85%81%
NOM < 1162%66%64%
NOM62%72%67%

*The NOV is not available in the Promise data.