For example, to choose 110 sample comments for Eclipse as shown in Table 1, we explored the distribution of comments lines and obtained quintiles as follows 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 1473. Hence the five strata are 1–3, 4–4, 5–5, 6–7, and 8–1473. Then from each stratum, we ...
It does have it’s limited uses right now – the occasional game and allowing multiple file uploads whilst browser vendors implement the equivalent part of the HTML5 spec. Outside of that it’s use is nothing more than an irritant – I’ve certainly never missed it once in the 2.5 years...
The strata were defined based on the length (in terms of lines) of comments. In particular, for each project, we first computed the quintiles based on the distribution of comments’ length and treated the quintiles as strata. For example, to choose 110 sample comments for Eclipse as shown ...