Frommissing +‎-ness.

• enPR:mĭsʹ-ing-nəs,IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/,/-nɪs/,/-nɛs/
• Hyphenation:miss‧ing‧ness
• Rhymes:-ɪsɪŋnəs

missingness (uncountable)

1. Absence.
   • 1931, Vernon Loder,Death of an Editor, page236:

     So far, we assume that he took the rifle from the cabinet to throw blame by itsmissingness — I mean, its absence — on some one else.

   • 1988,Theology, volume91, page467:

     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[…]

   • 2002, Martin Lass,Mirror, Mirror, Body and Mind - The Physiological and Psychological Journey, page39:

     That is, feelings ofmissingness and hurt — the usual interpretation of Wound — being lopsided perceptions, each contain the tacit feeling that the opposite can exist on its own.

2. Missingdata;omission.(Can we add anexample for this sense? )
3. (statistics) Themanner in whichdata aremissing from asample of apopulation.
   • 1992, Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger,Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods, page282:

     In large scale surveys the assumption ofmissingness at random is untenable.

   • 2002, Paul D. Allison,Missing Data, Sage Publications,→ISBN, page86:

     These methods are very sensitive to assumptions made about themissingness mechanism or about the distributions of the variables with missing data.

   • 2006, Mamdouh Refaat,Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, page180:

     Some imputation models require the data to have a certain distribution of their missing values, theirmissingness pattern.

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