marginalize
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- marginalise (mostly British)
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marginalize (third-person singular simple present marginalizes, present participle marginalizing, simple past and past participle marginalized)
- (transitive) To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305:
- 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.
- (mathematics) To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
- 2021, Nils Thuerey, Philipp Holl, Maximilian Mueller, Patrick Schnell, Felix Trost, Kiwon Um, chapter 25, in Physics-based Deep Learning, page 245:
- Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters , 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.
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relegate something to margins or to a lower limit
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marginalize
- inflection of marginalizar:
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