1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 6, She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
(of an internal combustion engine) Running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
1997, S. Klinke, Data Structures for Computational Statistics (page 27)The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software.
2002, David J. Hand, ‎Niall M. Adams, ‎Richard J. Bolton, Pattern Detection and DiscoveryPatterns of missings across the whole data set are readily visible, but also patterns which only apply to small subgroups of cases.
