missing

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɪsɪŋ/

Verb

1. present participle of miss#English|miss

Adjective

missing (not comparable)

1. Not able to be located; gone#Adjective|gone, misplaced#Adjective|misplaced.

   Synonyms: absent, lost

   my missing socks

2. Not present when it (they) should be.

   missing data point

   Joe went missing last year.

3. Of an internal combustion engine: run#Verb|running roughly due to an occasional lack#Noun|lack of a spark#Noun|spark or other irregular fault#Noun|fault.

Translations

• French: manquant, disparu
• German: fehlend
• Italian: mancante
• Portuguese: sumido, faltante, desaparecido, perdido
• Russian: отсу́тствующий
• Spanish: faltante, ausente, desaparecido

Noun

missing (plural missings)

1. (statistics) A value that is missing.
   • 1997, S. Klinke, Data Structures for Computational Statistics (page 27)

     The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software.

   • 2002, David J. Hand, ‎Niall M. Adams, ‎Richard J. Bolton, Pattern Detection and Discovery

     Patterns of missings across the whole data set are readily visible, but also patterns which only apply to small subgroups of cases.

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