verbWord forms: -fies, -fying or -fied(transitive)
to classify wrongly
Examples of 'misclassify' in a sentence
misclassify
Unfortunately, these statistical models often misclassify banks.
Harlan Etheridge 2015, 'Minimizing the Costs of Using Models to Assess the Financial Health of Banks', International Journal of Business and Social Researchhttp://thejournalofbusiness.org/index.php/site/article/view/889. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A dichotomized “urban–rural” approach, based on political boundaries may misclassify environments or fail to capture local drivers of risk.
Nicole F. Dear, Chifundo Kadangwe, Themba Mzilahowa, Andy Bauleni, Don P. Mathanga,Chifundo Duster, Edward D. Walker, Mark L. Wilson 2018, 'Household-level and surrounding peri-domestic environmental characteristics associatedwith malaria vectors Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles funestus along an urban–ruralcontinuum in Blantyre, Malawi', Malaria Journalhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-018-2375-5. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)