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ignorable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-der. Latin īgnōrōlbor. French ignorer English ignore Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English ignorable From ignore + -able.

Meanings

  1. Able to be ignored.
    • Users on this Internet chat system are ignorable by right-clicking the user name.
  2. Insignificant or trivial enough to be ignored.
  3. (of missing data) Unrelated to the parameters being estimated
    • If θ and φ are not functionally related to each other (or that the knowledge of one does not provide any information about the other) then the parameters are called “distinct,” and the missing data mechanism is ignorable. 2015, Trivellore Raghunathan, Missing Data Analysis in Practice, →ISBN, page 6:
    • Another pertinent distinction in Rubin's missing data classification system is whether the missing data mechanism is ignorable. 2007, Patrick E. McKnight, Katherine M. McKnight, Souraya Sidani, Missing Data: A Gentle Introduction, →ISBN, page 50:
    • Although there is an abundance of statistical literature describing (complicated) methods that can be used to investigate whether or not one is dealing with ignorable or informative missing data in a longitudinal study (see, for instance, Diggle, 1989; Ridout, 1991; Diggle et al., 1994), it is basically quote easy to investigat this matter. 2003, Jos W. R. Twisk, Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis for Epidemiology, →ISBN:

Forms

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more ignorable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most ignorable Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

unignorable · radical · significant · important · noticeable · informative

Deriveds

nonignorable · ignorably

Synonyms

trivial · negligible · neglectable · insignificant

Translations (13)

ja 些細な (that can be ignored) · tr yok sayılabilir (that can be ignored) · ja つまらない (that can be ignored) · cmn 可忽略的 (that can be ignored) · fr ignorable (that can be ignored) · nl negeerbare (that can be ignored) · pt ignorável (that can be ignored) · ko 무시(無視) 가능(可能)하다 (that can be ignored) · es ignorable (that can be ignored) · it ignorabile (that can be ignored) · ja くだらない (that can be ignored) · ota یسیر (that can be ignored) · de vernachlässigbar (that can be ignored)

ignorable en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-der. Latin īgnōrōlbor. French ignorer English ignore Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English ignorable From ignore + -able.

Meanings

  1. Anything that can be ignored.
    • So long as people like Mr Spearing stop at this point and resort to adjectives instead of numbers, so long will engineers, and probably also decision makers, continue to treat intangibles as ignorables. 1969, Michael Huxley, The Geographical Magazine, volume 42, page 389:

Forms

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ignorables Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

nonresponse · imputation · missingness