Title
Prioritization of Issues and Requirements by Cumulative Voting: A Compositional Data Analysis Framework
Abstract
Cumulative Voting (CV), also known as Hundred-Point Method, is a simple and straightforward technique, used in various prioritization studies in software engineering. Multiple stakeholders (users, developers, consultants, marketing representatives or customers) are asked to prioritize issues concerning requirements, process improvements or change management in a ratio scale. The data obtained from such studies contain useful information regarding correlations of issues and trends of the respondents towards them. However, the multivariate and constrained nature of data requires particular statistical analysis. In this paper we propose a statistical framework; the multivariate Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) for analyzing data obtained from CV prioritization studies. Certain methodologies for studying the correlation structure of variables are applied to a dataset concerning impact analysis issues prioritized by software professionals under different perspectives. These involve filling of zeros, transformation using the geometric mean, principle component analysis on the transformed variables and graphical representation by biplots and ternary plots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/SEAA.2010.35
EUROMICRO-SEAA
Keywords
Field
DocType
various prioritization study,statistical framework,particular statistical analysis,software professional,principle component analysis,impact analysis issue,cumulative voting,compositional data analysis framework,software engineering,multivariate compositional data analysis,cv prioritization study,data analysis,coda,change management,geometric mean,correlation,cumulant,statistical analysis,principal component analysis,covariance matrix
Change management,Data mining,Cumulative voting,Computer science,Multivariate statistics,Compositional data,Software,Biplot,Covariance matrix,Principal component analysis
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1089-6503
13
0.59
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Panagiota Chatzipetrou1467.54
Lefteris Angelis2129682.51
Per Rovegard3342.06
Claes Wohlin43475208.03