misrecover

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verb

To recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbmisrecover (third-person singular simple present misrecovers, present participle misrecovering, simple past and past participle misrecovered)

present singular third person misrecovers · participle present misrecovering · participle past misrecovered · past misrecovered

  1. To recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.

    Especially as the model with the highest number of parameters (the conjunction strategy) is misrecovered most frequently.

    2018 June, Charlotte E. R. Edmunds, Fraser Milton, Andy J. Wills, “Due process in dual process: Model‐recovery simulations of decision‐bound strategy analysis in category learning”, in Cognitive Science, volume 42, number 53
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    The third situation in which Massaro et al. (2001) found BMS misrecovered the correct model a high percentage of the time was when Newton’s law (NMP) was compared with a weighted additive version of Newton’s law (WNAV).

    2003 March, Mark A. Pitt, Woojae Kim, In Jae Myung, “Flexibility versus generalizability in model selection”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, volume 10

    In practice, this constraint is a significant limitation because if the key recovery process does not work for only one key byte (because not enough encrypted packets were captured by the attacker from the concerning weak IV class or because a byte of the plaintext is unknown), all the following key bytes will be probably misrecovered.

    2007, Carlisle Adams, Ali Miri, Michael Wiener, Selected Areas in Cryptography, page 346

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