robustify

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₁réwdʰos
Proto-Italic *rouðos
Italicbor.
Old Latin rōbus
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin rōbustuslbor.
English robust
Latin -i-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *θakos
Proto-Italic *-fakos
Latin -ficus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -ficō
Latin -ificāreder.
Old French -ifierbor.
Middle English -ifien
English -ify
English robustify

    From robust + -ify.

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    Verb

    robustify (third-person singular simple present robustifies, present participle robustifying, simple past and past participle robustified)

    1. To make robust, especially (software, statistics) to make more tolerant of unexpected events.
      The UI looks nice, but you'll need to robustify it before it goes into production.
      • 2024, Barbara Rossi, “Recent developments in forecast evaluation”, in Michael P. Clements, Ana Beatriz Galvão, editors, Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Macroeconomic Forecasting, Edward Elgar, page 294 of 274-304:
        To robustify the Mincer and Zarnowitz (1969) test against instabilities, Rossi and Sekhposyan (2016) propose a fluctuation test constructed over rolling windows[.]

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