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