DATA IMPUTATION

AMARESHWAR KARATAGI REVA University Bangalore DATA IMPUTATION DATA - Data is information that has been translated into a form that is efficient for movement or processing. IMPUTATION - Imputation simply means replacing the missing values with an estimate, then analyzing the full data set as if the imputed values were actual observed values. Data Imputations can be defined as averages or extractions from a predictive distribution of missing values, require a method of creating a predictive distribution for imputation based on the observed data. The two approaches for generating this distribution are Explicit Modeling - In explicit modeling , the predictive distribution is based on a formal statistical model, for example, multivariate normal, therefore the assumptions are explicit. Examples of explicit modeling are Average(Mean) imputation - The missing value is replaced for the mean of all data f...