"... In PAGE 3: ...sed the past five years (i.e. 1999 to 2003 inclusive) of the journal Information amp; Software Technology and the Journal of Systems amp; Software. This exercise identified 12 papers (see Table1 ). These concerned a range of different project effort prediction systems ranging from regression models to machine learning techniques such as case-based reasoning and neural nets.... ..."

"... In PAGE 2: ... Dr. Walker generously provided the phosphorus accretion rate data he used as shown in Table2 , whichwere not used in this study since the spatial coordinates of sampling sites and the data from the two sites at the southern end of the sampling transact of Reddy #281993#29 were not included. The di#0Berence between the data in Table 1 and Table 2 are not signi#0Ccant.... In PAGE 2: ...re listed in Table 1. Dr. Walker generously provided the phosphorus accretion rate data he used as shown in Table 2, whichwere not used in this study since the spatial coordinates of sampling sites and the data from the two sites at the southern end of the sampling transact of Reddy #281993#29 were not included. The di#0Berence between the data in Table 1 and Table2 are not signi#0Ccant. Using the data in Table 1, the least squares estimate of the phosphorus settling velocity is 9.... In PAGE 2: ...8 m#2Fyr, and the estimate is 10.2 m#2Fyr using the data in Table2 . Values of other input parameters and variables used in this paper are in Table 3.... In PAGE 4: ... The width of the #0Dow path was assumed to be #0Cxed; therefore, the model predicts average water-column concentrations and sediment- phosphorus accretion rates as a function of distance south from the discharge structure. Model parameter #28K e #29was estimated using the 26-year-average phosphorus accretion rates mea- sured at 24 locations #28 Table2 #29 via a least squares method. The least-squares estimate of K e is 10.... In PAGE 14: ... Sample distributions of K e List of tables: Table 1. Phosphorus accretion rate data used in the paper Table2 .... ..."