DP-100 · Question #71
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The correct answer is B. No. Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF) is a time-series imputation technique that fills missing values by propagating the last known observed value forward. While it preserves dimensionality, it is only meaningful for ordered/sequential (time-series) data where observations…
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- BNo
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Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF) is a time-series imputation technique that fills missing values by propagating the last known observed value forward. While it preserves dimensionality, it is only meaningful for ordered/sequential (time-series) data where observations are temporally related. For a general numerical dataset that is not time-ordered, LOCF is inappropriate and can introduce bias. The correct approach for imputing missing values in a non-time-series numerical dataset without reducing dimensionality would be mean, median, or mode substitution.
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