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interactions terms in multiple imputations (Amelia or other mi packages)

I have a question about interaction terms in multiple imputations. My understanding is that the imputation model is supposed to include all information that is used in the later analysis including any ...
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Finding missing number in a sequence

I need to find one missing number, from a sequence of numbers such as 4 8 12 16 __ 24. I need to find the missing number. How would I do that programmatically? the numbers and the missing ...
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Find most recent non-missing value in a vector

I'm trying to return the most recent row in the vector with a non-missing value. For instance, given x <- c(1,2,NA,NA,3,NA,4) Then function(x) would output a list like: c(1,2,2,2,3,3,4) Very ...
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How to compute the Standard Normal Homogeinity Test, Buishand range test, Von neuman ratio test and the Pettitt test [on hold]

I am not very new to R as I use it for my daily data analysis needs. I have been searching for an R package that can compute Standard Normal Homogeinity Test, Buishand range test, Von Neumann ratio ...
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impute error: a column has 80% missing value

I need to calculate the missing values (specific probeset)in the sample using 6 nearest neighbors and Euclidean distance with the impute.knn() function. I had to replace a value with NA in my dataset ...
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Android-java Fil transfer over TCP byte missing

sending side- It is in android and it is part of AsyncTask, doInBackground. Basically, it will send file name, size, and image data to serverside. InetAddress serverIP = ...
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How to remove NA from a factor variable (& from a ggplot chart)?

I have a problem with NA in a factor variable since ggplot includes them in the plot as if they are another category/level. I would like to drop the missing data. I am sorry I don't have code handy at ...
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Non standard node informations issue (XPath, C code)

I'm using libxml2 (2-2.7.8) and xpath (v1) to extract with my C program some information from wunderground.com generated XML file. If all nodes contains informations all work great. The problem is ...
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Identify missing values in a sequence / perform asymmetric difference between two lists

Using R, I want to efficiently identify which values in a sequence are missing. I've written the below example of how I do it. There must be a better way. Can someone help? data.list=c(1,2,4,5,7,8,9) ...
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how to resolve the warning in R [closed]

The data i am using looks as shown below, it has 50000 instances and 32 variables.... The missing values are present in many varibles ,.. sorry was unable to post the entire data.. I used ...
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facebook share url show preview details only on second time click

I have a share button on my site (I use AddThis tool) and Open Graph meta tags with article as a type: meta property="fb:app_id" content="No" meta property="og:image" content="LogoUrl" meta ...
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Using R to insert a value for missing data with a value from another data frame

All, I have a question that I fear might be too pedestrian to ask here, but searching for it elsewhere is leading me astray. I may not be using the right search terms. I have a panel data frame ...
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R factor NA vs <NA>

I have the following data frame: df1 <- data.frame(id = 1:20, fact1 = factor(rep(c('abc','def','NA',''),5))) df1 id fact1 1 1 abc 2 2 def 3 3 NA 4 4 5 5 abc 6 6 def ...
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Set values of groups in pandas conditionally python

I have a datafram with the following columns: duration, cost, channel 2 180 TV1 1 200 TV2 2 300 TV3 1 nan TV1 2 nan TV2 2 nan ...
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UPDATE annual changes with discontinuous dates

This answer has shown me how to get annual changes from data: UPDATE values_table as a join values_table as b ON b.date_sampled = DATE_SUB(a.date_sampled, INTERVAL 1 YEAR) set a.annual_change = ...

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