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Re: fillmissing


From: Juan Pablo Carbajal
Subject: Re: fillmissing
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:36:43 +0200

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 11:35 PM Juan Pablo Carbajal
<ajuanpi+dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2) I think "no": recently, Octave has been focused on Matlab
> > compatibility, and Matlab does not define a NA value. Some other
> > programming languages do – in that case, NA, is a distict subset of the
> > NaN values defined by IEEE 754. But that is language-specific, and
> > neither IEEE 754 itself nor Matlab define NA, so I'm guessing Octave
> > would not be interested in implementing that.
>
> I am not sure I understand the answer but Octave has NA values, and
> NaN values,  since long. Check
> > NA(3,2)
> ans =
>
>     NA    NA
>     NA    NA
>     NA    NA
>
> and the logic of NA values is consistent with missing data
> https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Missing-Data.html#Missing-Data

BTW, pandas has implemented NA since version 1.0
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/missing_data.html



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