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roˈbustness
[f. robust + -ness.]
Robust character or quality.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 187 That robustnesse of body, and puissance of person, which is the onely fruict of strength that those colder climes doe yeild. 1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 253 They were in great danger of perishing, although the robustnesse of my body carried mee through on my feete. 1672Boyle Wks. (1772) III. 620 Rather from the robustness of the bladder,..than from the non-gravitation of water. 1756Burke Subl. & B. Wks. I. 56 An air of robustness and strength is very prejudicial to beauty. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 236 It shows more robustness to carry a weight for miles, than to pull out a wedge at a jerk. 1817Rickman Gothic Arch. (1862) 8 Strength and robustness are retained in the Doric. 1838James Robber i, His arms were not such as would have called attention from their robustness. 1870Hooker Student's Flora 391 Very variable in habit, size, robustness. 1953G. E. P. Box in Biometrika XL. 318 This remarkable property of ‘robustness’ to non-normality which these tests for comparing means possess, and without which they would be much less appropriate to the needs of the experimenter, is not necessarily shared by other statistical tests. 1973J. Buettner-Janusch Physical Anthropol. viii. 240 [Modern man] may walk bipedally. Among the specializations that permit this are the shape of the arch and the position and robustness of the big toe. 1974Adby & Dempster Introd. Optimization Methods iv. 78 A concept both more vague and much more difficult to ensure is termed robustness. A robust algorithm is one which in practice usually yields the global minimum or a good local minimum of any function of even a large number of variables from a poor initial approximation. |