underidentified

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Etymology 1

From under- +‎ identified.

Adjective

underidentified (not comparable)

1. Insufficiently identified.
   • 2015 November 7, “A New Extension of the Binomial Error Model for Responses to Items of Varying Difficulty in Educational Testing and Attitude Surveys”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     We also note that the special case in which the b parameter is set a priori to 1 is underidentified and requires an arbitrary constraint on one item parameter or, equivalently, on the a distribution parameter.

Etymology 2

From underidentify +‎ -ed.

Verb

underidentified

1. simple past and past participle of underidentify