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undersmoothing

undersmoothing noun: insufficient smoothing.

Noun

undersmoothing (countable and uncountable, plural undersmoothings)

  1. Insufficient smoothing
    • We study the effects of bias correction on confidence interval coverage in the context of kernel density and local polynomial regression estimation, and prove that bias correction can be preferred to undersmoothing for minimizing coverage error.2015, Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo, Max H. Farrell, “On the Effect of Bias Estimation on Coverage Accuracy in Nonparametric Inference”, in arXiv

Forms of undersmoothing

pluralundersmoothings

Origin of undersmoothing

From under- + smoothing.

Questions about undersmoothing

What does undersmoothing mean?
Undersmoothing means insufficient smoothing.
What part of speech is undersmoothing?
Undersmoothing is a noun.
What is the plural of undersmoothing?
The plural of undersmoothing is undersmoothings.

Words near undersmoothing in the dictionary

  1. underslips
  2. underslope
  3. underslopes
  4. underslung
  5. undersmoothed
  6. undersmoothing
  7. undersnow
  8. undersocialised
  9. undersocialized
  10. undersocieties
  11. undersociety

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