missingness
noun/ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/ · /-nɪs/
Etymology From missing + -ness.
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Absence.
- 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.1931, Vernon Loder, Death of an Editor, page 236:
- 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 […]1988, Theology, volume 91, page 467:
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- 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.2002, Martin Lass, Mirror, Mirror, Body and Mind - The Physiological and Psychological Journey, page 39:
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Missing data; omission.
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Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population.
- In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable.1992, Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger, Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods, page 282:
- These methods are very sensitive to assumptions made about the missingness mechanism or about the distributions of the variables with missing data.2002, Paul D. Allison, Missing Data, Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 86:
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- Some imputation models require the data to have a certain distribution of their missing values, their missingness pattern.2006, Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, page 180: