Noun: marginalization ,maa(r)-ji-nu-lu'zey-shun [N. Amer], ,maa(r)-ji-nu-lI'zey-shun [Brit]
- The social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society)
"the marginalization of the underclass";
- marginalisation [Brit]
- (statistics) integration of a probability distribution over a subset of parameters to calculate a probability that is only a function of the remaining parameters
"Marginalization is a key technique in Bayesian inference for dealing with nuisance parameters";
- marginalisation [Brit]
Derived forms: marginalizations
Type of: social process
Encyclopedia: Marginalization