Software Versioning and Quality Degradation? An Exploratory Study of the Evidence
SSRN Electronic JournalPublished 1 January 2005Open access
Anindya Ghose, Arun Sundararajan
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This paper provides a framework for testing a wide variety of results that are based on related models of vertical differentiation, and its findings have important implications for studies that treat web-based user ratings as cardinal data.
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