AppliedMultiple choice
Small companies are much likelier to leave a financial field blank when their results are bad. What kind of missingness is this?
- AMissing completely at random, since the blanks are spread across many companies
- BMissing not at random
- CMissing at random, because it depends on company size, which is observed
- DNot missingness at all, as a blank is equivalent to zero
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