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NaN sentinel items

A short video on the use of sentinel items for missing data, such as NA and NaN

Sentinel items are specific sets of characters that are used to indicate the absence of data.

This could appear as NaN (not a number) or NA (not available) depending on the platform used to import and record the data. This video considers some different ways to deal with such NaN values.

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