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na.roughfix

Rough Imputation of Missing Values


Description

Impute Missing Values by median/mode.

Usage

na.roughfix(object, ...)

Arguments

object

a data frame or numeric matrix.

...

further arguments special methods could require.

Value

A completed data matrix or data frame. For numeric variables, NAs are replaced with column medians. For factor variables, NAs are replaced with the most frequent levels (breaking ties at random). If object contains no NAs, it is returned unaltered.

Note

This is used as a starting point for imputing missing values by random forest.

Author(s)

Andy Liaw

See Also

Examples

data(iris)
iris.na <- iris
set.seed(111)
## artificially drop some data values.
for (i in 1:4) iris.na[sample(150, sample(20)), i] <- NA
iris.roughfix <- na.roughfix(iris.na)
iris.narf <- randomForest(Species ~ ., iris.na, na.action=na.roughfix)
print(iris.narf)

randomForest

Breiman and Cutler's Random Forests for Classification and Regression

v4.6-14
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Fortran original by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler, R port by Andy Liaw and Matthew Wiener.
Initial release
2018-03-22

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