_____ imputation is a basic method of handling missing data by replacing missing values with the most frequent category (for categorical variables).
- Listwise
- Mean
- Median
- Mode
'Mode' imputation is a basic method of handling missing data by replacing missing values with the most frequent category (for categorical variables). It is easy to implement but might introduce bias by overrepresenting the most frequent category.
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