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marginalize

'mɑ:dʒinəlaiz4 senses · 70 ms
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verb/ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz//ˈmɑɹdʒɪnəlaɪz/
  1. 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. 2

    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.

syn. alienate · invisibilize · peripheralize · sideline

ant. prioritize · accept

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