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misspecifying

misspecifying is the present participle and gerund of misspecify.

Meaning of misspecify

Verb

misspecify (third-person singular simple present misspecifies, present participle misspecifying, simple past and past participle misspecified)

  1. To specify wrongly.
    • Any performance analysis based on stochastic simulation is subject to the errors inherent in misspecifying the modeling assumptions, particularly the input distributions.2015, Soumyadip Ghosh, Henry Lam, “Computing Worst-case Input Models in Stochastic Simulation”, in arXiv

Questions about misspecifying

What is misspecifying the present participle and gerund of?
Misspecifying is the present participle and gerund of misspecify.

Words near misspecifying in the dictionary

  1. misspecification
  2. misspecifications
  3. misspecified
  4. misspecifies
  5. misspecify
  6. misspecifying
  7. misspeculate
  8. misspeculated
  9. misspeculates
  10. misspeculating
  11. misspeculation

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