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I was thinking of censoring, maybe I should have said another word like floored.

The reason I think of this as censoring is that there are are some classical statistical models that model a distribution with a large mass at a minimum threshold, e.g. "tobit" censored regression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censoring_(statistics)



Thanks for the explanation. I never paid much attention in my stats lectures so I deserve to have missed out on that term-of-art. I think the physics lingo would be to call it "capped" or "bounded" or "constrained".


thanks, it's very understandable that you thought i was mistyping 'centred'.




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