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A SAS Macro for Automating the 'Change-in-Estimate' Strategy for Assessing Confounding
White Papers Although the "Change-In-Estimate" (CIE) strategy is conceptually more accurate than the "Significance-Test-of-the covariate" (STC) strategy for assessing confounding in the causal modeling of observational epidemiological data, the use of the CIE...
[June 2, 2007, 1:00]
Bid Estimate
Downloads Whether you do carpet installation, flooring, landscaping, or general housing maintenance, BidEstimate enables you to get your estimate in the hands of the customer faster. Bid Estimate will take all the information you entered in on the Bid screen...
[July 7, 2009, 12:06]
Coco Estimate
Downloads Coco Estimate is a software development effort/schedule/cost estimation program. Coco Estimate will automatically compute the estimated effort, schedule, staff, and cost of a project based on the lines of code or function points.
[February 24, 2001, 7:00]
Software Sizing Growth and Uncertainty: Both Affect Estimate Quality and Project Risk
White Papers Although many factors influence a software project's cost and schedule, software program size is the key determinant that affects cost and effort. Software sizing is a measure of how "big" a program is.
[December 14, 2005, 23:00]
Caldera loss exceeds estimate
News Linux software seller Caldera International reported a greater-than-expected loss on Wednesday, another sign of the sour investment climate surrounding the open-source operating system. For its second fiscal quarter, ended April 30, the company...
[June 7, 2001, 10:07]
Java Economy in India: A Pessimistic Estimate
White Papers Java and Java based applications have caught attention since its inception. With IT sector grabbing the centre stage of the Indian economy due to its fast growth, Java plays a major role in boosting this sector.
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Job Cost Manager
Downloads Job Cost Manager has been designed for the contractor that needs to estimate, control, and manage job costs in a simple and effective manner. Then the estimator adds a profit.Actual costs can be tracked and placed side by side with the estimate.
[December 26, 2008, 6:53]
Energy-Based Sound Source Localization and Gain Normalization for Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays
White Papers This paper presents an energy-based technique to estimate both microphone and speaker/talker locations from an ad hoc network of microphones. In addition, the paper presents a technique, which is independent of the volumes of the speakers, to...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Factor in the productive hours per day when estimating duration
Talkback If you were to estimate all tasks on the basis of the number hours effort to complete them, then Tom would have a valid (and pehaps obvious? However most project managers I know estimate on the basis of the number of days effort required to...
[April 28, 2006, 10:11]
Measuring Bandwidth Signatures of Network Paths
White Papers This paper proposes a practical and efficient technique, Forecaster, to estimate the end-to-end available bandwidth, and the speed of the most congested (tight) link along an Internet path. It merely relies on a simple binary test to estimate...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
Adopting Agile Development, Part 7: Methods for Estimating Work Effort in Agile Development
White Papers This paper explores how to estimate work efforts in agile development. This paper also touches on a recent theme in discussion forums about the insanity of estimates and how much time it would save not to estimate at all.
[February 12, 2009, 23:00]
A third of Net users hacked or infected
Talkback Is Edelman really basing their estimate on interviews with only 1,000 people? Did they actually base their estimate on .000002 (two hundred thousandths of 1 percent) ? The Net has over 500,000,000 people on it.
[August 13, 2003, 22:38]
IDC raises sales estimates for 2004
News Researcher IDC has raised its estimate for the number of PCs that will be sold in 2004, saying it now expects sales of 176.5 million units, the company said on Monday. The year is expected to end with 14.2 percent growth, the company said, an...
[September 28, 2004, 10:00]
Factor in the productive hours per day when estimating duration
News Before you can estimate duration, you must understand the effort hours associated with your project. As the project manager, should you estimate that the duration of the activity is one calendar week?
[April 26, 2006, 15:40]
IBM talks of 10,000 new jobs
News IBM on Wednesday met analysts' average earnings estimate for the third quarter and said it saw the need for about 10,000 new jobs next year. Big Blue reported earnings per share from continuing operations of $1.02 (£0.61) up from 99 cents per share...
[October 16, 2003, 14:35]
iTMS Estimator
Downloads This is a little application that shows the current estimated total tracks sold on the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) as well as an estimate of the time of the next milestone sale.The application will automatically update its estimate every 5 minutes...
[February 7, 2006, 6:00]
BuildersPal
Downloads Produces Abstract Estimate&Bill, Detailed Estimate&Bill, Final Bill etc reports. Software tool for cost estimation & billing for RCC buildings incl plumbing, sewerage & electrification. Has Rate Analysis - number of shapes for measurement entry.
[November 15, 2006, 11:15]
Bandwidth Estimation in Wireless LANs for Multimedia Streaming Services
White Papers One challenge is to quickly and precisely estimate the available bandwidth for the decision of streaming rates of layered and scalable multimedia services. In this paper, a new method, IdleGap, is suggested to estimate the available bandwidth of a...
[August 10, 2007, 10:41]
First-Order Distortion Estimation for Efficient Video Streaming at Moderate to High Packet Loss Rates
White Papers It builds on the "First-Order Distortion Estimate" (FODE) which employs a Taylor expansion of the distortion about the operating point of zero Packet Loss Rate (PLR), while accounting for packet loss, error propagation and error concealment at the...
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
Measuring End-to-End Bandwidth With Iperf Using Web100
White Papers This paper describes how with an instrumented TCP stack (Web100), one can estimate the end-to-end bandwidth accurately, while consuming significantly less network bandwidth and time. The paper modified Iperf to use Web100 to detect the end of slow...
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
