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Marginalize
//ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz// verb
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Verb
- 1 To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise. transitive
"The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised."
- 2 relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people wordnet
- 3 To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
"Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior."
Etymology
From marginal + -ize.
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