References to studies on the statistical properties of programs?

I am looking for references to studies on the statistical properties of
programs. So far, this is all that I have found: Knuth's FORTRAN study,
an article on instrumenting a compiler with a style analyzer, a study of
a small CHILL program, and Linton and Quong's paper on how programs change
between successive compiles and links. Can anyone add to the list? I am
particularly interested in studies on modular and object-oriented languages.


Thanks,
Christian


@ARTICLE{Knuth71,
      AUTHOR = "Donald E. Knuth",
      TITLE = "An Empirical Study of {FORTRAN} Programs",
      JOURNAL = "Software---Practice and Experience",
      VOLUME = 1,
      PAGES = {105--133},
      YEAR = 1971
}


@ARTICLE{Redish86,
      AUTHOR = "K. A. Redish and W. F. Smyth",
      TITLE = "Program Style Analysis: A Natural By-Product of Program
                                Compilation",
      JOURNAL = "CACM",
      PAGES = {126--133},
      VOLUME = 29,
      NUMBER = 2,
      MONTH = feb,
      YEAR = 1986
}


@TECHREPORT{Conradi85,
      AUTHOR = "Reidar Conradi and Dag Heiraas Wanvik",
      TITLE = "Mechanisms and Tools for Separate Compilation",
      NOTE = "Presented at IFIP WG.2, Maine, Oct 7-11, 1985",
      INSTITUTION = "Division of Computer Systems and Telematics.
                                    University of Trondheim, Norway",
      NUMBER = 25,
      YEAR = 1985
}


@ARTICLE{Linton89,
      AUTHOR = "Mark A. Linton and Russel W. Quong",
      TITLE = "A Macroscopic Profile of Program Compilation and Linking",
      JOURNAL = "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering",
      VOLUME = 15,
      NUMBER = 4,
      PAGES = {427--436},
      MONTH = apr,
      YEAR = 1989
}
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Lund University, BOX 118, S-221 00 LUND, Sweden
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