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Multivariate time series data for real-world applications typically contain a significant amount of missing values. The dominant approach for classification with such missing values is to impute them heuristically with specific values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 SeungHyun Kim , Hyunsu Kim , EungGu Yun , Hwangrae Lee , Jaehun Lee , Juho Lee

Healthcare time series data is vital for monitoring patient activity but often contains noise and missing values due to various reasons such as sensor errors or data interruptions. Imputation, i.e., filling in the missing values, is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Lien P. Le , Xuan-Hien Nguyen Thi , Thu Nguyen , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Binh T. Nguyen

Missing attribute values are quite common in the datasets available in the literature. Missing values are also possible because all attributes values may not be recorded and hence unavailable due to several practical reasons. For all these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Yelipe UshaRani , P. Sammulal

Distributional Random Forest (DRF) is a flexible forest-based method to estimate the full conditional distribution of a multivariate output of interest given input variables. In this article, we introduce a variable importance algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-15 Clément Bénard , Jeffrey Näf , Julie Josse

Tree-based learning methods such as Random Forest and XGBoost are still the gold-standard prediction methods for tabular data. Feature importance measures are usually considered for feature selection as well as to assess the effect of…

Applications · Statistics 2024-12-19 Jakob Schwerter , Andrés Romero , Florian Dumpert , Markus Pauly

This paper presents algorithm for missing values imputation in categorical data. The algorithm is based on using association rules and is presented in three variants. Experimental shows better accuracy of missing values imputation using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Jiří Kaiser

Multiple imputation is a well-established general technique for analyzing data with missing values. A convenient way to implement multiple imputation is sequential regression multiple imputation (SRMI), also called chained equations…

Dealing with missing data is an important problem in statistical analysis that is often addressed with imputation procedures. The performance and validity of such methods are of great importance for their application in empirical studies.…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-19 Jakob Schwerter , Ketevan Gurtskaia , Andrés Romero , Birgit Zeyer-Gliozzo , Markus Pauly

Missing value imputation is an important practical problem. There is a large body of work on it, but there does not exist any work that formulates the problem in a structured output setting. Also, most applications have constraints on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Rahul Kidambi , Vinod Nair , Sundararajan Sellamanickam , S. Sathiya Keerthi

Data from discovery proteomic and phosphoproteomic experiments typically include missing values that correspond to proteins that have not been identified in the analyzed sample. Replacing the missing values with random numbers, a process…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-01 Matus Medo , Daniel M. Aebersold , Michaela Medova

Missing data are a concern in many real world data sets and imputation methods are often needed to estimate the values of missing data, but data sets with excessive missingness and high dimensionality challenge most approaches to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-22 Andrew J. Becker , James P. Bagrow

We consider the problem of quantitatively evaluating missing value imputation algorithms. Given a dataset with missing values and a choice of several imputation algorithms to fill them in, there is currently no principled way to rank the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Vinod Nair , Rahul Kidambi , Sundararajan Sellamanickam , S. Sathiya Keerthi , Johannes Gehrke , Vijay Narayanan

Missing data is a ubiquitous challenge in data analysis, often leading to biased and inaccurate results. Traditional imputation methods usually assume that the missingness mechanism is missing-at-random (MAR), where the missingness is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-30 Huiming Xie , Fei Xue , Xiao Wang

Imputation procedures in biomedical fields have turned into statistical practice, since further analyses can be conducted ignoring the former presence of missing values. In particular, non-parametric imputation schemes like the random…

Applications · Statistics 2018-08-13 Burim Ramosaj , Lubna Amro , Markus Pauly

By filling in missing values in datasets, imputation allows these datasets to be used with algorithms that cannot handle missing values by themselves. However, missing values may in principle contribute useful information that is lost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Oliver Urs Lenz , Daniel Peralta , Chris Cornelis

In an era when big data are becoming the norm, there is less concern with the quantity but more with the quality and completeness of the data. In many disciplines, data are collected from heterogeneous sources, resulting in multi-view or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Chao Shang , Aaron Palmer , Jiangwen Sun , Ko-Shin Chen , Jin Lu , Jinbo Bi

Missing data arises when certain values are not recorded or observed for variables of interest. However, most of the statistical theory assume complete data availability. To address incomplete databases, one approach is to fill the gaps…

Missing data imputation remains a fundamental challenge in modern data science, especially when uncertainty quantification is essential. In this work, we propose MissBGM, an AI-powered missing data imputation method via Bayesian generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-05 Qiao Liu

Handling missing values in training datasets for constructing learning models or extracting useful information is considered to be an important research task in data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. In recent years, lot of…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-04-22 Shariq Bashir , Saad Razzaq , Umer Maqbool , Sonya Tahir , Abdul Rauf Baig

Predictive mean matching (PMM) is a popular imputation strategy that imputes missing values by borrowing observed values from other cases with similar expectations. We show that, unlike other imputation strategies, PMM is not guaranteed to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-01 Paul T. von Hippel