marginalize out
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
The act of discarding a subset of random variables from a probability distribution to find the marginal distribution.
Example Sentences
- "One way to efficiently define such a large set of functions is to learn a probability distribution over all the relevant variables, then solve the classification task by marginalizing out the missing variables."
- "To do this, we need to marginalize out the model parameters #92;mu, W, and #92;sigma² with respect to appropriate prior distributions."