missingness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /-nɛs/
- mĭsʹ-ing-nəs
- /-nɪs/
- /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/
Etymology
Etymology tree English missing Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English missingness From missing + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Absence.
So far, we assume that he took the rifle from the cabinet to throw blame by its missingness — I mean, its absence — on some one else.
1931, Vernon Loder, Death of an Editor, page 236:That is, feelings of missingness and hurt — the usual interpretation of Wound — being lopsided perceptions, each contain the tacit feeling that the opposite can exist on its own.
2002, Martin Lass, Mirror, Mirror, Body and Mind - The Physiological and Psychological Journey, page 39:However, in examining the influences on Merton, there is one major influence which is missing, and its 'missingness' is illustrated by one quotation in which Merton describes the relationship between […]
1988, Theology, volume 91, page 467:
- (uncountable) Missing data; omission.
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(uncountable) The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population.
These methods are very sensitive to assumptions made about the missingness mechanism or about the distributions of the variables with missing data.
2002, Paul D. Allison, Missing Data, Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 86:In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable.
1992, Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger, Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods, page 282:Some imputation models require the data to have a certain distribution of their missing values, their missingness pattern.
2006, Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, page 180: