missingness

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Missing data

   Missing data; omission.

3. 3

   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.
   • 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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