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Missing data is a pervasive issue in statistical analyses, affecting the reliability and validity of research across diverse scientific disciplines. Failure to adequately address missing data can lead to biased estimates and consequently…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-06 Asmaa Ahmad , Eric J Rose , Michael Roy , Edward Valachovic

Missing value imputation is a fundamental challenge in machine intelligence, heavily dependent on data completeness. Current imputation methods often handle numerical and categorical attributes independently, overlooking critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xiaopeng Luo , Zexi Tan , Zhuowei Wang

Combining match scores from different biometric systems via fusion is a well-established approach to improving recognition accuracy. However, missing scores can degrade performance as well as limit the possible fusion techniques that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Melissa R Dale , Elliot Singer , Bengt J. Borgström , Arun Ross

Presence of missing values in a dataset can adversely affect the performance of a classifier. Single and Multiple Imputation are normally performed to fill in the missing values. In this paper, we present several variants of combining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Shehroz S. Khan , Amir Ahmad , Alex Mihailidis

Missing data is common in applied data science, particularly for tabular data sets found in healthcare, social sciences, and natural sciences. Most supervised learning methods only work on complete data, thus requiring preprocessing such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Mike Van Ness , Tomas M. Bosschieter , Roberto Halpin-Gregorio , Madeleine Udell

Multiple imputation (MI) has been widely applied to missing value problems in biomedical, social and econometric research, in order to avoid improper inference in the downstream data analysis. In the presence of high-dimensional data,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-04 Zhiqi Bu , Zongyu Dai , Yiliang Zhang , Qi Long

In order to predict and fill in the gaps in categorical datasets, this research looked into the use of machine learning algorithms. The emphasis was on ensemble models constructed using the Error Correction Output Codes framework, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Muhammad Ishaq , Sana Zahir , Laila Iftikhar , Mohammad Farhad Bulbul , Seungmin Rho , Mi Young Lee

Missing data are ubiquitous in empirical databases, yet statistical analyses typically require complete data matrices. Multiple imputation offers a principled solution for filling these gaps. This study evaluates the performance of several…

Computation · Statistics 2026-02-05 Enzo Porto Brasil

Missing data is a systemic problem in practical scenarios that causes noise and bias when estimating treatment effects. This makes treatment effect estimation from data with missingness a particularly tricky endeavour. A key reason for this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-27 Jeroen Berrevoets , Fergus Imrie , Trent Kyono , James Jordon , Mihaela van der Schaar

Missing values or data is one popular characteristic of real-world datasets, especially healthcare data. This could be frustrating when using machine learning algorithms on such datasets, simply because most machine learning models perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Luke Oluwaseye Joel , Wesley Doorsamy , Babu Sena Paul

Many data mining and data analysis techniques operate on dense matrices or complete tables of data. Real-world data sets, however, often contain unknown values. Even many classification algorithms that are designed to operate with missing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Michael S. Gashler , Michael R. Smith , Richard Morris , Tony Martinez

Missing values pose a persistent challenge in modern data science. Consequently, there is an ever-growing number of publications introducing new imputation methods in various fields. While many studies compare imputation approaches, they…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-10 Krystyna Grzesiak , Christophe Muller , Julie Josse , Jeffrey Näf

Simulation-based inference (SBI) methods typically require fully observed data to infer parameters of models with intractable likelihood functions. However, datasets often contain missing values due to incomplete observations, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yogesh Verma , Ayush Bharti , Vikas Garg

Missing value imputation is a crucial preprocessing step for many machine learning problems. However, it is often considered as a separate subtask from downstream applications such as classification, regression, or clustering, and thus is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Adam Catto , Nan Jia , Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi , Anita Raja

Although data may be abundant, complete data is less so, due to missing columns or rows. This missingness undermines the performance of downstream data products that either omit incomplete cases or create derived completed data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Haw-minn Lu , Giancarlo Perrone , José Unpingco

Missing data imputation, which aims to impute the missing values in the raw datasets to achieve the completeness of datasets, is crucial for modern data-driven models like large language models (LLMs) and has attracted increasing interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jianwei Wang , Kai Wang , Ying Zhang , Wenjie Zhang , Xiwei Xu , Xuemin Lin

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

Genomics data such as RNA gene expression, methylation and micro RNA expression are valuable sources of information for various clinical predictive tasks. For example, predicting survival outcomes, cancer histology type and other patients'…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-26 Sophie Peacock , Etai Jacob , Nikolay Burlutskiy

Missing data are ubiquitous in real world applications and, if not adequately handled, may lead to the loss of information and biased findings in downstream analysis. Particularly, high-dimensional incomplete data with a moderate sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Zongyu Dai , Zhiqi Bu , Qi Long