Examples of “missingness” in a Sentence

3 example sentences showing how to use missingness, grouped by meaning.

noun The particular way in which some information is absent from a set of data collected about a group.

Some imputation models require the data to have a certain distribution of their missing values, their missingness pattern. — Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS (2006)
In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable. — Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger (1992)
These methods are very sensitive to assumptions made about the missingness mechanism or about the distributions of the variables with missing data. — Paul D. Allison, Missing Data (2002)