Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?

Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl. Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?. In Stephan Diehl, Harald Gall, Ahmed E. Hassan, editors, Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2006, Shanghai, China, May 22-23, 2006. pages 112-118, ACM, 2006. [doi]

@inproceedings{WeissgerberD06:0,
  title = {Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?},
  author = {Peter Weißgerber and Stephan Diehl},
  year = {2006},
  doi = {10.1145/1137983.1138011},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138011},
  tags = {refactoring},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/WeissgerberD06%3A0},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {112-118},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2006, Shanghai, China, May 22-23, 2006},
  editor = {Stephan Diehl and Harald Gall and Ahmed E. Hassan},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn = {1-59593-397-2},
}