What is a value imputation?
The process of replacing a missing value with an acceptable substitute.
value imputation explained in plain English
The process of replacing a missing value with an acceptable substitute. When a value is missing, you can either discard the entire example or you can use value imputation to salvage the example. For example, consider a dataset containing a`temperature` feature that is supposed to be recorded every hour. However, the temperature reading was unavailable for a particular hour. Here is a section of the dataset:
A system could either delete the missing example or impute the missing temperature as 12, 16, 18, or 20, depending on the imputation algorithm.
Example
Practitioners refer to value imputation when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.
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