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Exercise

Mean-imputing the temperature

Mean imputation can be a risky business. If the variable you are mean-imputing is correlated with other variables, this correlation might be destroyed by the imputed values. You saw it looming in the previous exercise when you analyzed the air_temp variable.

To find out whether these concerns are valid, in this exercise you will perform mean imputation on air_temp, while also creating a binary indicator for where the values are imputed. It will come in handy in the next exercise, when you will be assessing your imputation's performance. Let's fill in those missing values!

Instructions
100 XP
  • In the pipeline modifying tao, create a new variable called air_temp_imp that is TRUE if air_temp is missing and FALSE otherwise.
  • Later in the same pipeline, overwrite air_temp with its own mean whenever it is missing and leave it untouched otherwise, assigning the result to tao_imp.