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[Derek M Jones]

Peter,

> A less eccentric view would be that the papers on it which appear in the most highly regarded journals in software 
> engineering are likely to give you such techniques.

The appeal to authority argument.

There are experimental data driven fields that publish
work that contains great value.

The non-experimentally driven fields hang onto the
coat tails of the reputable fields by having the
quake doctors all publishing in a few journals and all
professing a high regard for each other work (at least
in public).

https://shape-of-code.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/

>> It's opinions all the way down.
> Granted that opinions abound concerning software statistical evaluation, it does not follow that opinions are all there 
> are.

Pointers to the data underpinning these opinions welcome.

-- 
Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
blog:https://shape-of-code.com