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missingness

Syllables: miss·ing·ness/ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/

missingness noun: absence.

Noun

missingness (uncountable)

  1. 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
    • 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
  2. Missing data; omission.
  3. The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population.
    • In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable.1992, Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger, Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods, page 282
    • 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

Examples of missingness in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Origin of missingness

From missing + -ness.

Questions about missingness

What does missingness mean?
Missingness means absence.
How do you use missingness in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is missingness?
Missingness is a noun.
How do you pronounce missingness?
Missingness is pronounced /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/.

Words near missingness in the dictionary

  1. missing trader fraud
  2. missing trader frauds
  3. missing white girl syndrome
  4. missing white woman syndrome
  5. missingly
  6. missingness
  7. missings
  8. missiological
  9. missiologically
  10. missiologies
  11. missiologist

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