robustize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

robust +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

robustize (third-person singular simple present robustizes, present participle robustizing, simple past and past participle robustized)

  1. To make robust.
    • 2015 July 8, “Food Sharing among Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Children”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Kilocalories, a heavy right-skewed variable, were log-transformed to help robustize inference, and also, importantly, to avoid a few large observations from biasing results.