Robustize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make robust.

    "Kilocalories, a heavy right-skewed variable, were log-transformed to help robustize inference, and also, importantly, to avoid a few large observations from biasing results."

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"Kilocalories, a heavy right-skewed variable, were log-transformed to help robustize inference, and also, importantly, to avoid a few large observations from biasing results."

Etymology

From robust + -ize.

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