downweighted

Verb

downweight (third-person singular simple present downweights, present participle downweighting, simple past and past participle downweighted)

1. To give something a lower weight.
   • In addition, both adaptive and robust methods downweight outliers. Note that, if a large sample is taken, the M-estimation procedure will generally downweight some of the largest residuals, even if the error terms were normally distributed.2004, Thomas W. O'Gorman, Applied Adaptive Statistical Methods: Tests of Significance and Confidence Intervals, SIAM, →ISBN, page 12

   Antonyms:

   upweight

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