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The Missing Observation Has a Story Too

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Incomplete records posed a problem for statistical inference long before modern neural networks. Ignoring an absent observation can change the group we describe, especially when absence is related to the value we wanted to measure.

Sources for this history

Rubin: Inference and Missing Data (1976)
Scikit-learn: Imputation of missing values

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