AppliedMultiple choice
A feature is missing for 20% of rows. What do you establish first?
- AWhether the mean or the median is the better fill value
- BWhy it is missing, and whether that is itself informative
- CWhether to drop the feature entirely from the model
- DWhether the model you chose can handle missing values natively
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