ignorable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Able to be ignored.

   • Users on this Internet chat system are ignorable by right-clicking the user name.
2. 2

   Insignificant or trivial enough to be ignored.

3. 3

   Unrelated to the parameters being estimated

   • Another pertinent distinction in Rubin's missing data classification system is whether the missing data mechanism is ignorable.
   • 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.
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   1. 4

      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.

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