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prodNA

Introduce Missing Values Completely at Random

'prodNA' artificially introduces missing values. Entries in the given dataframe are deleted completely at random up to the specified amount.

prodNA(x, noNA = 0.1)

`x`	dataframe subjected to missing value introduction.
`noNA`	proportion of missing values w.r.t. the number of entries of 'x'.

dataframe with missing values.

Daniel J. Stekhoven, <stekhoven@stat.math.ethz.ch>

data(iris)
## Introduce 5% of missing values to the iris data set
iris.mis <- prodNA(iris, 0.05)
summary(iris.mis)

Nonparametric Missing Value Imputation using Random Forest

v1.4

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Daniel J. Stekhoven <stekhoven@stat.math.ethz.ch>

Initial release

2013-12-31