Marginalize

Quick meaning: Marginalize is a verb meaning (mathematics) To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.

Meaning

(mathematics) To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.

More Meanings

1. (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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• marginalizes
• marginalizing
• marginalized
• marginalise

Synonyms for marginalize

Depending on context, synonyms include alienate, invisibilize, peripheralize, sideline.

Antonyms for marginalize

Common opposites include prioritize, accept.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include marginalise, supplant, exclude, sideline, emarginate, remarginalize.

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