Meanings
- uncountableAbsence.
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 2362 more examples
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 467That 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 - uncountablemathematicsThe 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 2822 more examples
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 86Some 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
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