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📊 To remove weighting 📦 To make lighter 🦵 To reduce load
to unweight

to unweight

8.3
Remove weights from data so all items count equally
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈweɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desponderar
  • In this paper, case weights were only used to compute prevalence; all results are unweighted unless otherwise specified.
  • unweighted sample
  • unweighted sample size
  • unweighted percentage

Examples

  • In order to compare the countries effectively, we decided to unweight the data so that each country received equal importance.

  • The researchers opted to unweight the survey results to ensure that all responses were treated equally.

  • Finally, the analysis presented here used countries, unweighted by population, as cases for analysis.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Unweighted sample size was rounded to the nearest 10 as required by the restricted data use agreement with the U.S. Department of Education.

    Academic text (2015)

  • * Data are unweighted. Percentages sum to 100 within category, but due to rounding may not sum to exactly 100.

    Academic text (2013)

  • * Significant at .05 level. ** Significant at .01 level. *** Significant at .001 level. Data are unweighted.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Regressions used unweighted samples.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The Level 2 (i.e., community-level data) descriptive statistics represent the average value across zip codes (unweighted for number of residents).

    Academic text (2005)

  • Because our unit of analysis was the city, unweighted city-specific rates were averaged within city groups to compute overall distressed city rates and nondistressed city rates.

    Academic text (2011)

  • To analyze the trends fairly, the report included unweighted data, ensuring no country was favored over others.

Synonyms

to equalize
vsto unweight
  • US
10 4.4

To make things the same in amount, status or value

takes away differing importance so each data item counts equally

How Weighted

weight
  • Specialized
233 3.8
to reweight
  • Specialized
7.2
to unweight
  • Specialized
8.3

Surface Forms

unweight infinitive
unweighted past
unweighted past participle
unweighting present participle
unweights third person singular

Morphology

unweight = weight (transparent) = un + weight

The statistical sense is a direct application of removing applied 'weights' (values), so the composition un- + weight is readily interpretable.

Etymology

Unweight comes from un- ('remove') and weight ('value' or 'importance'), so in data work it means to remove those values so every item is treated the same.