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Loss vs Missingness - What's the difference?

loss | missingness |

As nouns the difference between loss and missingness

is that loss is (lus) while missingness is absence.

loss

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(es)
  • an instance of losing, such as a defeat
    • The match ended in their first loss of the season.
  • The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
    • Loss of an arm ; loss of weight ; loss of cognitive functions ; loss of appetite.
  • the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone
    • We mourn his loss .
  • (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict
    • The battle was won, but losses were great.
  • (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance
    • ''The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss , when this difference is positive.
  • destruction, ruin
    • ''It was a terrible crash: both cars were total losses
  • (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work
    • The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss''' before the subsequent ' losses during transport over the grid

    Usage notes

    * We often use make' or ' take a loss. See

    Antonyms

    * gain * win * (financial) profit

    Derived terms

    * loss leader * loss ratio * at a loss * for a loss

    Related terms

    * losable * losel * loser

    Related terms

    * at a loss

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    missingness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Absence.
  • *1931 , Vernon Loder, Death of an Editor , page 236
  • *:So far, we assume that he took the rifle from the cabinet to throw blame by its missingness — I mean, its absence — on some one else.
  • *1988 , Theology , vol. 91, page 467
    • However, in examining the influences on Merton, there is one major influence which is missing, and its 'missingness' is illustrated by one quotation in which Merton describes the relationship between [...].
  • *2002 , Martin Lass, Mirror, Mirror, Body and Mind - The Physiological and Psychological Journey , page 39
  • *:That is, feelings of missingness and hurt — the usual interpretation of Wound — being lopsided perceptions, each contain the tacit feeling that the opposite can exist on its own.
  • Missing data
  • (statistics) The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population
  • *1992 , Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger, Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods , page 282
  • *:In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable.
  • *2002 , Paul D. Allison, Missing Data , Sage Pulications, ISBN 0761916725, p. 86
  • :These methods are very sensitive to assumptions made about the missingness mechanism or about the distributions of the variables with missing data.
  • *2006 , Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS , page 180
  • *:Some imputation models require the data to have a certain distribution of their missing values, their missingness pattern.

    • References

    * Princeton University (pdf)