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Practical Predictive Analytics
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Practical Predictive Analytics

by Ralph Winters
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Missing values

Missing values denote the absence of a value for a variable. Since data can never be collected in a perfect manner, many missing values can appear due to human oversight, or can be introduced via any systematic process that touches a data element. It can be due to a survey respondent not completing a question, or, as we have seen, it can be created from joining a membership file with a transaction file. In this case, if a member did not have a purchase in a particular year, it might end up as NA or missing.

The first course of action for handling missing values is to understand why they are occurring. In the course of plotting missing values, you not only want to produce counts of missing values, but you want to determine which ...

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ISBN: 9781785886188Supplemental Content