Censoring

v. remove material (from books, movies, etc.) which is considered offensive or immoral

Censorship is defined as the removal and/or withholding of information from the public by a controlling group or body. Typically censorship is done by governments, religious groups, corporations, or the mass media, although other forms of censorship exist. The withholding of  official secrets, commercial secrets, intellectual property, and privileged lawyer-client communication is not usually described as censorship when it remains within reasonable bounds. Because of this, the term "censorship" often carries with it a sense of untoward, inappropriate or repressive secrecy.
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Noun
1. counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
(synonym) censorship, security review
(hypernym) counterintelligence
(hyponym) military censorship
2. deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
(synonym) censorship
(hypernym) deletion
(hyponym) Bowdlerism

Noun
1. a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
(hypernym) official, functionary
Verb
1. forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
(synonym) ban
(hypernym) outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise
(hyponym) embargo
(classification) medium
2. subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"
(hypernym) measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value
(hyponym) edit, blue-pencil, delete

Observations are referred to as censored when the dependent variable of interest represents the time to a terminal event, and the duration of the study is limited in time. Although the concept was developed in the biomedical research, censored observations may occur in a number of different areas of research. For example, in the social sciences we may study the "survival" of marriages, high school drop-out rates (time to drop-out), turnover in organizations, etc. In each case, by the end of the study period, some subjects probably will still be married, will not have dropped out, or will still be working at the same company; thus, those subjects represent censored observations.
In economics we may study the "survival" of new businesses or the "survival" times of products such as automobiles. In quality control research, it is common practice to study the "survival" of parts under stress (failure time analysis).
Data sets with censored observations can be analyzed via Survival Analysis or via Weibull and Reliability/Failure Time Analysis .
See also, Type I and II Censoring , Single and Multiple Censoring and Left and Right Censoring.

So-called Type I censoring describes the situation when a test is terminated at a particular point in time, so that the remaining items are only known not to have failed up to that time (e.g., we start with 100 light bulbs, and terminate the experiment after a certain amount of time). In this case, the censoring time is often fixed, and the number of items failing is a random variable. In Type II censoring the experiment would be continued until a fixed proportion of items have failed (e.g., we stop the experiment after exactly 50 light bulbs have failed). In this case, the number of items failing is fixed, and time is the random variable.
Data sets with censored observations can be analyzed via Survival Analysis or via Weibull and Reliability/Failure Time Analysis . See also, Single and Multiple Censoring and Left and Right Censoring .

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