"marginalize out" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: marginalizes out [present, singular, third-person], marginalizing out [participle, present], marginalized out [participle, past], marginalized out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} marginalize out (third-person singular simple present marginalizes out, present participle marginalizing out, simple past and past participle marginalized out)
  1. (mathematics) The act of discarding a subset of random variables from a probability distribution to find the marginal distribution. Categories (topical): Mathematics, Probability theory

Inflected forms

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