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Multiple Imputation

Imputation, seems to be a simple term, "Replacing Missing Data". Also, we have learned a lot many techniques to perform such Imputation in few lines of code. So, let me ask a question to you guys now.  Do you think in practical scenarios where we have very sensitive information like medical data, imputing some missing data based on some Random data would suffice? Will it impact the end analysis?  Before reading ahead, do think of the above question and try to answer it for yourself.  So, coming to the answer, there is a high probability that we might bias the dataset with some static value imputation. Imputation is never a simple job, it takes a lot of time and expertise to impute the correct values, even after that you can't be sure how your end model will perform and have you imputed the correct values. Thus, there was a need to devise a technique that could impute different plausible values and impute with the best one.  As of now, all the imputation techniques we saw

KNN Imputation

Talking about Multi-variate Imputation, one of the techniques that are very common and familiar to every data scientist is the KNN Impute. Though KNN Impute might be a new term, KNN is not a new term and is familiar to everyone related to this field. Even if it is a new term for you, don't worry we have defined it for you in the next section.  Let's define the KNN and make it familiar to the new aspirants.