Meaning

Absence..

Definitions by Sense

1. Absence.
2. Missing data; omission.
3. (statistics) The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population.

Example Sentences

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.

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 […]

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.

In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable.

These methods are very sensitive to assumptions made about the missingness mechanism or about the distributions of the variables with missing data.

Some imputation models require the data to have a certain distribution of their missing values, their missingness pattern.

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