marginalize

To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.

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.

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.