minmax

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A form of minimax — A decision rule used for minimizing the maximum possible loss, or maximizing the minimum gain.

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Meanings

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of minimax.

    We also evaluate minmax regret query optimisation experimentally, showing that it outperforms a currently employed strategy of optimisers that uses mean values for uncertain parameters..

    2015, Khaled H. Alyoubi, Sven Helmer, Peter T. Wood, “Ordering Selection Operators Using the Minmax Regret Rule”, in arXiv
verbminmax (third-person singular simple present minmaxes, present participle minmaxing, simple past and past participle minmaxed)

present singular third person minmaxes · participle present minmaxing · participle past minmaxed · past minmaxed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of minimax.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

maxmin
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Chicago

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