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missRanger

Fast Imputation of Missing Values

v2.6.1 · Dec 7, 2024 · GPL (>= 2)

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Alternative implementation of the beautiful 'MissForest' algorithm used to impute mixed-type data sets by chaining random forests, introduced by Stekhoven, D.J. and Buehlmann, P. (2012) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr597>. Under the hood, it uses the lightning fast random forest package 'ranger'. Between the iterative model fitting, we offer the option of using predictive mean matching. This firstly avoids imputation with values not already present in the original data (like a value 0.3334 in 0-1 coded variable). Secondly, predictive mean matching tries to raise the variance in the resulting conditional distributions to a realistic level. This would allow, e.g., to do multiple imputation when repeating the call to missRanger(). Out-of-sample application is supported as well.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies FNN ranger hdImpute mlim outForest marginaleffects rtemis worcs missRanger

Version History

new 2.6.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.6.1 ← 2.6.0 diff Dec 6, 2024
updated 2.6.0 ← 2.5.0 diff Aug 16, 2024
updated 2.5.0 ← 2.4.0 diff Jul 11, 2024
updated 2.4.0 ← 2.3.0 diff Nov 18, 2023
updated 2.3.0 ← 2.2.1 diff Oct 19, 2023
updated 2.2.1 ← 2.2.0 diff Apr 27, 2023
updated 2.2.0 ← 2.1.3 diff Mar 23, 2023
updated 2.1.3 ← 2.1.1 diff Mar 29, 2021
updated 2.1.1 ← 2.1.0 diff Mar 19, 2021
updated 2.1.0 ← 1.0.5 diff Jun 29, 2019
updated 1.0.5 ← 1.0.4 diff Jun 8, 2019
updated 1.0.4 ← 1.0.3 diff Jan 7, 2019
updated 1.0.3 ← 1.0.2 diff May 14, 2018
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Apr 22, 2018
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Mar 21, 2018
new 1.0.0 Aug 24, 2017