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underidentified

underidentified adjective: insufficiently identified. Also the simple past and past participle of underidentify.

Adjective

underidentified (not comparable)

  1. Insufficiently identified.
    • We also note that the special case in which the b parameter is set a priori to 1 is underidentified and requires an arbitrary constraint on one item parameter or, equivalently, on the a distribution parameter.2015 November 7, “A New Extension of the Binomial Error Model for Responses to Items of Varying Difficulty in Educational Testing and Attitude Surveys”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Also used as

underidentified is also the simple past and past participle of underidentify.

Origin of underidentified

From under- + identified.

From underidentify + -ed.

Questions about underidentified

What does underidentified mean?
Underidentified means insufficiently identified.
What part of speech is underidentified?
Underidentified is an adjective.

Words near underidentified in the dictionary

  1. underhydroxylated
  2. underhydroxylation
  3. underhyped
  4. underided
  5. underidentification
  6. underidentified
  7. underidentify
  8. underilluminated
  9. underilluminating
  10. underimagined
  11. underimmunise

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