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undersimplification en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From under- + simplification.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Incomplete simplification
    • Both oversimplification (e.g., explanatory variables are incomplete) and undersimplification (e.g., explanatory variables are redundant) of reality can lead to trustless explanation and unfaithful prediction. 2016 January 23, “Spatial Autocorrelation Approaches to Testing Residuals from Least Squares Regression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

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