How do you handle missing data? What imputation techniques do you recommend?

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Missing data can be dealt with in a variety of ways. I believe the most common reaction is to ignore it. Choosing to make no decision, on the other hand, indicates that your statistical programme will make the decision for you. Your application will remove things in a listwise sequence most of the time. Depending on why and how much data is gone, listwise deletion may or may not be a good idea. Another common strategy among those who pay attention is imputation. Imputation is the process of substituting an estimate for missing values and analysing the entire data set as if the imputed values were the true observed values. And how would you choose that estimate? The following are some of the most prevalent methods: