misspecify

From mis- +‎ specify.

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.