3.2 Modeling: Mapping Among Measurement Domains

There are clearly four distinctly different measurement domains. We would like very much to understand the complex relationships among these four domains. Much of what we wish to know about good software construction will be determined by the mappings that we will make between the four domains. Good programmers, for example, will follow good programming processes that will, in turn, produce good programs. Unfortunately, certain types of programmers will follow good development processes that will yield very bad programs.

The process of building strong functional (and useful) relationships among the four measurement domains will be governed by a distinct set of statistical procedures that will allow us to discover these relationships. This process is called statistical modeling. It is the subject of Chapter 7.