Are you still using the mean and median values to clean the blanks?

Mathematical foundations of blank filling

Gianluca Malato
4 min readMar 13

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Working with missing values is a common task in machine learning. We can say that it’s the very first task to accomplish before starting a pre-processing pipeline. The most common approach to blank filling is to use the mean and the median values. Although this is a very common…

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Gianluca Malato

Theoretical Physicists, Data Scientist and fiction author. I teach Data Science, statistics and SQL on YourDataTeacher.com. E-mail: gianluca@gianlucamalato.it