Author entropy vs. file size in the GNOME suite of applications

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Title	Author entropy vs. file size in the GNOME suite of applications
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2009
Authors	Casebolt, JR, Krein, JL, MacLean, AC, Knutson, CD, Delorey, DP
Secondary Title	2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Pagination	91 - 94
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Vancouver, BC, Canada
ISBN Number	978-1-4244-3493-0
Keywords	author entropy, contributions, gnome, msr challenge
Abstract	We present the results of a study in which author entropy was used to characterize author contributions per file. Our analysis reveals three patterns: banding in the data, uneven distribution of data across bands, and file size dependent distributions within bands. Our results suggest that when two authors contribute to a file, large files are more likely to have a dominant author than smaller files.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2009.5069484
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