Last data update: 2014.03.03

R: Introduce Missing Values Completely at Random
prodNAR Documentation

Introduce Missing Values Completely at Random

Description

'prodNA' artificially introduces missing values. Entries in the given dataframe are deleted completely at random up to the specified amount.

Usage

prodNA(x, noNA = 0.1)

Arguments

x

dataframe subjected to missing value introduction.

noNA

proportion of missing values w.r.t. the number of entries of 'x'.

Value

dataframe with missing values.

Author(s)

Daniel J. Stekhoven, <stekhoven@stat.math.ethz.ch>

See Also

missForest

Examples

data(iris)
## Introduce 5% of missing values to the iris data set
iris.mis <- prodNA(iris, 0.05)
summary(iris.mis)

Results