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mis- +‎ specify

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

  1. To specify wrongly.
    • 2015, Soumyadip Ghosh, Henry Lam, “Computing Worst-case Input Models in Stochastic Simulation”, in arXiv[1]:
      Any performance analysis based on stochastic simulation is subject to the errors inherent in misspecifying the modeling assumptions, particularly the input distributions.