Top "Missing-data" questions

For questions relating to missing data problems, which can involve special data structures, algorithms, statistical methods, modeling techniques, visualization, among other considerations.

Leaving values blank if not passed in str.format

I've run into a fairly simple issue that I can't come up with an elegant solution for. I'm creating a …

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Why does max() sometimes return nan and sometimes ignores it?

This question is motivated by an answer I gave a while ago. Let's say I have a dataframe like this …

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Missing values error in train() function Caret for trees

I'm new using R and I'm trying to build a decision tree. I've already used the package party for ctree …

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Replacing NAs in R with nearest value

I'm looking for something similar to na.locf() in the zoo package, but instead of always using the previous non-NA …

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How to replace NA (missing values) in a data frame with neighbouring values

862 2006-05-19 6.241603 5.774208 863 2006-05-20 NA NA 864 2006-05-21 NA NA 865 2006-05-22 6.383929 5.906426 866 2006-05-23 6.782068 6.268758 867 2006-05-24 6.534616 6.013767 868 2006-05-25 6.370312 5.856366 869 2006-05-26 6.225175 5.781617 870 2006…

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