missingness
English
Etymology
Noun
missingness (uncountable)
- Absence.
- 1931, Vernon Loder, Death of an Editor, page 236
- So far, we assume that he took the rifle from the cabinet to throw blame by its missingness — I mean, its absence — on some one else.
- 1988, Theology, vol. 91, page 467
- However, in examining the influences on Merton, there is one major influence which is missing, and its 'missingness' is illustrated by one quotation in which Merton describes the relationship between […]
- 2002, Martin Lass, Mirror, Mirror, Body and Mind - The Physiological and Psychological Journey, page 39
- That is, feelings of missingness and hurt — the usual interpretation of Wound — being lopsided perceptions, each contain the tacit feeling that the opposite can exist on its own.
- 1931, Vernon Loder, Death of an Editor, page 236
- Missing data.
- (statistics) The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population
- 1992, Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger, Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods, page 282
- In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable.
- 2002, Paul D. Allison, Missing Data, Sage Publications, →ISBN, p. 86
- These methods are very sensitive to assumptions made about the missingness mechanism or about the distributions of the variables with missing data.
- 2006, Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, page 180
- Some imputation models require the data to have a certain distribution of their missing values, their missingness pattern.
- 1992, Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger, Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods, page 282